A plant 'cyborg' has proven to have the capacity to move itself around to seek better light. We all know that plants can detect li...

A Welsh poetic insight into human nature. [Robert Macfarlane] credits his parents and his grandfather for passing on to him an abiding love...

Songwriter on this one was Kris Kristofferson.

I'd like to second AVI's recommendation to read this Virginia Postrel essay on culture . This is something we've been talking ab...

A 28-year-old dominatrix in England has decided to use her power to convince white Tories to vote socialist. Maybury, aka Mistress Rebecca,...

In his essay The Monsters and the Critics , Tolkien mentions a phrase used by the Beowulf poet: "Haeledh Under Heofenum." He say...

A major engineering challenge seems to have been overcome.

And then there's Krampus . In Central European folklore, Krampus is a horned, anthropomorphic figure described as "half-goat, hal...

Have you ever wondered why it does no good to point out to leftists that conservatives give more to charity than progressives? One page af...

That is all.

As they say, Trump needs a wartime consiglieri. John Solomon does his usual excellent investigative reporting into the muck that is the T...

Another ancient holdover animal holiday tradition , this one Celtic. It survives in Wales. Although I only encountered it tonight, it has f...

An article on the subject of Yule goats , a Christmas tradition with pre-Christian roots in Scandinavia. So do Christmas trees, of course; ...

Some $900,000 worth of clothing, jewelry, and the like.

As a case in point, Buss and von Hippel highlight the recent book Testosterone Rex: Unmaking the Myths of Our Gendered Minds by psychologis...

AVI mentioned in passing over at his place a certain tolerance for 'moderate' regional pride. I'm not sure I've adhered to ...

This is a gift you should reserve for small children of parents who have deeply offended you--like giving a young boy a drum set.  But I ha...

Beware the attempts to roll things back to control by 'the experts.' The author actually has some credentials of his own: a forme...

" Giving your child a dumb name like ABCDE should be considered child abuse because you’re willing to condemn your child to a lifetime...

This feature of the story about the divorce in which the parents dispute the gender of their child escaped me before. In their divorce proc...