Science has already ruined a number of important things for me, such as my high school GPA and pretty much all of religion. But this past week they really took the taco.

Texas officials are trying hard to keep the focus on child abuse — and away from religion — in the custody battle involving 437 children seized from a polygamist religious sect this month.

There’s a movie currently making the rounds on public television stations called “King Corn.”
A trio of filmmakers from back east traveled to Greene, Iowa, a few years ago. They rented an acre of land and planted corn. They wanted to discover how corn and corn byproducts made their way into the food chain of every American.