Dogs and Cats Living Together I'm too bummed to keep reading about the bungled spill cleanup for a while, so, as they would say over a...

Translation, Transliteration, and Technology: There are two fascinating stories today on the subject of texts of supreme historic importance...

Freedom: Now here is a lesson. You've seen this before: but look at the subtitles, especially in the final moments. "In anul Domn...

A Constitutional Question: How Does This Work? Dad29 has an interesting report from Wisconsin , which made me recognize a void in my knowle...

More Missing Cat Humor Not that I want to get everyone started on the kind of physics humor that took over Cassandra's site the other da...

All Spill, All the Time This cartoon is about the war, of course, but it seems to apply equally well to the spill. The public conversation ...

The Principled Genius Former mathematician Grigori Perelman made the news today by deciding, after considerable delay for pondering, to turn...

Grim's Hall Book Club: Vikings I promised you Vikings to follow on this last reading of Plutarch. I was trying to decide between The S...

"Nice Gulf. Wouldn't Want to See Anything Happen to It." Is the answer really as simple as the amnesty-vs.-secure-the-border ...

This Is Progress, However Criminally Delayed The A.P. reported about an hour ago that the A-Whale, "the world's largest oil-skimmi...

Make Me a Poster Knowing that I'm always trying to deal with one stray animal or another (as she is herself), a friend sent me a link to...

A Dark and Stormy Night It's been clear for several days now that we were very unlikely to get anything dangerous from Hurricane Alex; w...

Boris & Natasha I'm pretty confused. Kremlin officials acknowledged that at least 10 of the 11 suspects caught in the U.S. spy drag...

The Red and the Green: So, we've read about the Red Menace . But here's something you haven't seen before. Skip to 1:00 in. Now...

I really hope this works: I’ve had $100,000 burning in my pocket for the last three months and I’d really like to spend it on a worthy cause...

Automated Origami I've been reading about DNA, RNA, and proteins lately. I didn't realize how large and unwieldy proteins were, or ...

A Celebration: So today the Supreme Court of the United States recognized what all of us have always known: that the right to keep and bear...

A Play: [The Royal Shakespeare Company's] Morte d'Arthur is, in spirit, chainmail-rattlingly close to the original. If the adapter M...

This Explains a Lot A judge in Austin, Texas, has ruled that school districts can't force a teacher to award a student a higher grade t...

Μολὼν λαβέ The Supreme Court has ruled that the Second Amendment's protection of the right to bear arms is effective not only against i...