This sounds amazing . History — Grade 9: Aristotle, Politics . Herodotus, Histories . The Holy Bible , American Standard Version Livy, ...

This might be a good test to perform on all squishy research:  replace the numerical results with random numbers and see if the conclusions...

It's Saturday, and that means it's Quiz Time .  I got five of these "famous first lines of novels expressed in emoticons."

President Obama has just observed casually that Ukraine is not a member of NATO.  It is a signatory to the Budapest Memorandum , however, a...

Over and over again — throughout the entirety of my adult life, or so it feels — I have been shown Polish photographs from the beautiful sum...

The Weather Channel isn't providing me with the radar pictures I was hoping for:  a series of lovely, wet thunderstorms that were suppos...

Explain this one to me . When George W Bush passed the Commodities Futures Modernization Act 12 years ago, there was an influx, led by Goldm...

Can one, in fact, become a "citizen" of the Caliphate? " I formally and humbly request to be made a citizen of the Islamic St...

I remember how people used to make fun of President Reagan because he slept so much. The Capitol Steps did a really hilarious skit (to the ...

Where is everybody? Well, if you were looking at our solar system from outside, the way we look at others, the only planet you'd see is...

Another blogger takes up the question . He begins with two cases in which chivalrous actions ended up badly for the actors. Even more tragi...

A Texas father was found not guilty Wednesday of gunning down the man who killed his young sons in a drunken-driving accident . It took the ...

Paul Bloom writes : When asked what I am working on, I often say I am writing a book about empathy. People tend to smile and nod, and then I...

Dellwood , which adjoins Ferguson, has a different approach to police work. In Dellwood, a “citizens academy” was started for residents. T...

Someone has developed a nail polish that allows the wearer to dip her finger in a drink and detect knock-out drugs. Some opponents were o...

When I tutored fourth-grade kids in a bombed-out section of Houston some decades back, I was surprised to find that they'd been confiden...

Just 'cause I lied, now no one believes me? And reports that [Michael Brown's] friend Johnson had a criminal record that including l...

Is it just me, or is a back-up for your computerized agency less than useful if retrieving anything from the back-up system is too onerous ...

The Epicurean Dealmaker writes from Wall Street : I prefer to label these special snowflakes Trophy Kids, since their entire young lives hav...

As long as there's no conclusive link, we should be OK: The VA response — copies of which were obtained by USA TODAY — includes talking...