In which a health blogger gets dangerously close to putting her finger on what's wrong with climate science, but pulls back and zings s...

Saturday mornings bring the Not Exactly Rocket Science linkfest.  Some good ones today.  A kidney researcher complained to her advisor about...

Some of you know me as the commenter Tom, and please feel free to continue calling me that. Grim invited me to post here as part of working ...

Apparently the San Francisco local TV news anchors will read  anything  they see on the teleprompter.

David Goldman examines politics in Egypt, noting that There wasn’t before, there is not now, and there will not be in the future such a t...

It's the 12th of July.

Via Maggie's Farm, a couple of good posts about the Asiana crash and the different cultural approaches to technical skill, education, ...

Every so often in the history of cinema, a film comes along that probes man's inhumanity to man and muses on the enigmatic silence of Go...

There's got to be a way to ban this kind of idiocy.  I think it involves the ballot box. The DOE held a public meeting on Energy Cons...

My Alma Mater, Georgia State University, is trying a novel program to try to encourage women to study philosophy . Apparently they have dec...

A comment from a substitute teacher on that same Maggie's Farm post, about two approaches to rules: I especially noticed the differenc...

Many of you may have read the description, widely circulated last week, of the howling chaos that is a class full of black kids in a failed ...

After both the prosecution and the defense rested in the Zimmerman trial, the prosecution popped out with its secret strategy:   they asked...

Perhaps the most beautiful music ever composed, especially the instrumental interlude and conclusion.  Some pipes on this gal, too. Beim...

Douglas got me thinking about Bach: And this other beautiful music, also used in "Barry Lyndon," which had just about the best...

I feel like posting music and movie clips that speak directly to my right brain and have effects I don't understand at all. That was...

An unusually well-structured hymn, number 652 ("Rest") in the 1982 Episcopal hymnal, by Frederick Charles Maker, 1844-1927.  Too m...

This Saint-Saëns piece is called "Aquarium," but I first heard it without knowing its title, and it always made me think of the sc...

I'm fond of the " Titan " science-fiction trilogy by John Varley.  There is a race of centaurs who communicate in music.  They...

I haven't had a chance to watch this yet, but it comes well-recommended.