Spritz is publicizing a speed-reading app that really seems to work.  The program feeds you one word at a time.  This site lets you experim...

It's starting to look as though the missing Malaysian flight en route to Beijing was the victim of some kind of explosion.  The Boeing ...

A team of Hungarian programmers struggle to teach autonomous drone copters to use alignment, attraction, and avoidance to simulate the floc...

For those of you who followed YAG's and my long discussion of whether there really is such a thing as "species" outside the hu...

Perhaps it's no surprising that I gave a minute to this 'test,' because is built strictly around mythology . What Kind Of Mythic...

Ain't no rest for the wicked. Another appropriation(?) of old film noir style.

As usual, I administered the primary election in my precinct earlier this week.  There were two face-palm moments.  First, there were the us...

I'm a suburban-turned-exurban gal.   Only once in my life have I ever rented an apartment in a commercial district, with shops downstair...

MikeD linked to this thoughtful YouTube clip at Cassandra's place.  I missed it when it came out in 2012. "You must think Ameri...

Went and saw the Dropkick Murphys the other night. Good music to kick off the weekend.

So it's understandable that the HHS is not prepared to release any figures on the number of previously uninsured Americans who have bec...

If Bill Clinton was the first black president, and Obama is the first woman president , what will Hillary! TM be?

No doubt we've all been reading starry-eyed editorials about how Putin grasps the enormity of his error and is only seeking a face-savin...

The Ming dynasty famously went into isolationist decline towards the middle of the second millennium, after an impressive run.  Noah Smith a...

Something in a FireDogLake post made me ask the question:  is the Defense Department seriously including a Climate Change analysis in its pu...

From a homeschooler who calls herself an "unschooler."

Unexpected test answers .  I particularly like the one about the coin and the dice.

I don't quite know what to think about this parent's story , never having raised a teenager of my own.  What does ring a bell with m...

How can you tell when that special someone may not be marriage material after all? Normally it would be preferable to get this informatio...

This story from New Jersey is a little confusing.  A judge has been called on to decide whether parents must continue financial support of ...