These arguments are rather unlike one another, both in form and content. The first is easy to appreciate, brief and visual; the second take...

If any of you are interested in the subject of medieval medicine, you may find the journal article on Avicenna's cardiology to be fun r...

A bit ago, I published on these pages an intimation of a breakthrough in quantum physics concerning the negative mass of electrons.   M...

Holman Jenkins explains how the Detroit bankruptcy is racist .

A site called "DeadState" -- I am not familiar with it before today -- has a post claiming that Sears was destroyed because of a C...

In the last good movie but one, A Knight's Tale , a poor herald announces one of the competitors to the joust . My Lord, the Count Adehm...

Is it important to consider the facts of the life of a man , or just what he said and did? Or perhaps, just what he did: Facta non verba ,...

H/t Eric Kayne Photography.

Now here's an interesting photo essay .

If Detroit files the inevitable bankruptcy , how in the world will it ever get back into a position to borrow massively again in the future?...

The Crimson Reach has a suggestion:  don't punch a stranger on the street.  It's not necessary to run away.  Stand your ground, if ...

The President asserts executive authority he doesn't have to alter the terms of a bill that Congress passed, and that he himself signed ...

The trial of the year for finance nerds isn't Zimmerman, it's the SEC vs. Fabrice Tourre , the young ex-Goldman Sachs rising star wh...

I was amused to see the Daily Caller invoking the lair of the chili pepper . RateMyProfessors is a social media site that allows students ...

An amusing story about outrage based in math confusion .  How can North Carolina be 39th in wealth and 12th in child poverty?   Ummmmm. . . ...

I don't know if they read Fritz Leiber in the English Department, but he was one of the better writers of the last century -- if you lik...

This teen  was part of the solution.

If you want to get hired or tenure, you have to get published. If you want to get published, you need to say something novel. Thus : No ar...

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...