We may get a glimpse of a comet just after sunset for the next few days.  Comet Pan-STARRS came within about 100 million miles of Earth a f...

. . . Is through his coffee cup.  Well, not literally a man, but a flying insect vis-à-vis flowers trying to decide what kind of nectar will...

Guest blogger Gregg Stevens at CoyoteBlog reminds most of us why we're not trying to make a living in California, and why Douglas reall...

He loved elephants, but he did it to save the land.  Then he found it made desertification worse instead of better, and devoted the rest of ...

The "Antiplanner" reacts poorly to a San Francisco councilman's proposal to tax email to help the U.S. Postal Service out wi...

I'm obsessed with hoaxes lately, and our ability to admit what we don't know.  This is a wonderful art quiz .  Can you tell the mast...

The guy who writes " Rhymes with Cars and Girls " under the pen-name "The Crimson Reach" is a funny man.  Today he wonde...

From First Things , as I continue thinking about Grim's question about where Heidegger went wrong: The truth is that we cannot talk in...

In " The Weimar Touch ," A.J. Goldmann explores the German influence on American film culture when Jews and others fled Germany st...

One of the weakest points in the anthropogenic global warming argument is the heavy reliance on positive feedback assumptions.  CO 2  is a w...

From the Washington Post , an explanation of the forecasting embarrassment that was Snowquester: Still, I blame the storm more than I blam...

Can you remember when you learned to swim?  I was too young, but I'm sure I wasn't an infant.  I've seen shows demonstrating tha...

Or is it more Big Apple bashing?  Both, of course, but in another sense not really.  Obviously, this CBS report that 80% of graduates from ...

Well, not one horse exactly . The town has one police officer who is on patrol eight hours a day, leaving residents largely to fend for them...

By "the courage not to know," I'm not referring to anything as obscure as Keats's "negative capability," just th...

Victor Davis Hanson continues worrying about the future of California: In medieval California, the elderly and retired sometimes head to ...

I find this kind of thing completely incomprehensible.  The assumption seems to be that men can't be strong unless woman artificially m...

I thought this was a joke when I found it in my inbox, but apparently it's not.  It's a whole website full of ultra-serious discussi...

Reader James of " I Don't Know, But . . . " led me to Dr. Boli's Celebrated Magazine, in which the eponymous scholar publi...