The thing that bothers me more than anything else, these last few years, is the question of how to respond to matters like these . A small...

This one is by Bach.  I assume you need no introduction .  The man was a miracle.

The NRA's Institute for Legislative Action normally trumpets their successes on law-making matters; given the general turn against anti-...

The sorting out of Iraq's internal tensions was inevitable given our rapid departure; but the threats against Christians are not new. ...

It's a German piece, given what "German" meant in 1700 .

The following bit of history is from The King Arthur Flour 200th Anniversary Cookbook .  The book is an outstanding example of what a coo...

Here's something interactive websites are really useful for: walking us through concepts in geometry. If you're trying to home sc...

We can all relax; ClimateGate2 was completely overblown. The University of East Anglia has posted explanations of some of the troubling qu...

Wait, that's not mourning, that's just Kim Jong Il's legacy. Meanwhile, the Cuban government declared three days of mourning, p...

This version is from Hungary.  The song is in Latin, so that pilgrims from anywhere might have understood it if they had learned enough o...

Saw these ladies on Friday night last in Philadelphia. If you ever get the chance to hear them live, please do.

Heh.

The notes say that All Saints' choir was a children's choir until 1968, at which point the school that fed the choir closed, and t...

Restaurant-goers no doubt will be shocked to learn that fish are sometimes mislabeled on menus. According to an expose in the Boston Globe...

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...