Apparently the tomb of Scipio Africanus , and others of his lineage, is now open to visitors for the first time in two decades. For those ...

Frank J. is a comedy writer, but I think he's really on to something here . Imagine if cars hadn’t been around for a century, but ins...

Wired talks about a study that appears to demonstrate that ignorance is good for democracy . Not surprisingly, when the majority of anima...

Author Jeff Wise specializes in the human response to fear. His book " Extreme Fear " examines how many people have coped with pa...

Skepticism about skepticism: this is very meta. I followed a link from my favorite science compilation page, Not Exactly Rocket Science , ...

When the embassies of Denmark were burning around the globe, Christopher Hitchens organized the only protest I ever wanted to attend:  a ma...

Apparently my congressman decided to call his entire district tonight to invite us to have a 'town hall' meeting by phone.  That...

Harvard's Project Implicit has an interesting set of tests online, which are meant to show you where your implicit biases may be.  You ...

"Faith in humanity," yes.  However, there is a little matter of physics. It takes a train more than a mile to stop once it be...

Honestly, the pipes never get old.

For Barnabas and his Gentile Christian followers, the covenant between God and the Jews was a sham; it was never ratified. When, bringing ...

When you cut them with a knife before baking, the shape aftewards is inexact; but this a  cross pattée (or "Cross Patty" in En...

Since we're on the subject of the pipes, and since we've walked this ground in great detail this year, here's a counterargument ...

No danger this year of the sun's not coming back out of the cave.

One wonders two things:  how anyone did anything at work that day; and why we have accepted a society in which men sit in cubicles instead...

...is it the new Bluesmobile, or what?

But you must think you know a more familiar version of the lyric "Gloria In Excelsis Deo."  As, indeed, you do.

It occurs to me that there may be a few of you -- I trust not too many -- who are unmoved by the opening line of Mr. Walker's descriptio...

It's getting to the point at which we are thinking about provisioning gifts to commemorate the holidays, and show respect, friendship, o...