Have you noticed that, ever since we got an Ebola Czar, the disease has practically disappeared from the news?  From the American news, anyw...

Beginning a roundup of Saturday Rocket Science links: Since the turn of the millennium, worldwide deaths from malaria have been cut almos...

It's not easy to tell what all these clowns are arguing about.  The gist seems to be that the leadership of both chambers of Congress, w...

Forget everything you've been reading about the unacceptable cost of avoiding a government shutdown.  The really big deal is the impact ...

Fun with cartography .

Admittedly this parlor trick wouldn't scale up well in the field of public transport, unless copper were available by the mountainful f...

NSFW, so I won't quote it here, but if you're as crudely immune to all notions of propriety as I am, you'll enjoy this .  I'...

The man who would become novelist Patrick O'Brian was born 100 years ago today.  The WSJ ran a short piece that perfectly captures the ...

Elizabeth Holmes , the world's youngest female self-made billionaire (at age 30), is the developer and majority owner of a $9 billion co...

I don't remember taking a week to get my tree up in past years.  I am really slowing down!  Day three, and I've got the lights on an...

The most interesting design website I've run across in a while.

As predicted, Mary Landrieu (D-Obamacare) has lost her run-off for the Senate seat in Lousiana, about 57-43%.  Her debate strategy of expl...

"Jonathan Who?" syndrome strikes again .

This is a great idea for entertaining people they wait for the light to change. This and the next few posts will be from Not Exactly Rock...

For reasons I can't imagine, digits between 0 and 9 in financial transactions are not equally likely, even in the later digits.  They fo...

by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité (Netherlands, 1870-1946) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in m...

Good luck with this latest grand jury decision . I'll be out of the country for about two weeks. Let me know how it turns out.

So the Pope got some good press today . Religious leaders from a half-dozen faiths have signed on to a new Vatican initiative to end modern-...

Paterson , N.J., a city of about 150,000 people, had exactly 19 high school students this year who managed to break a 1500 score on the 240...