I was curious about the flamenco guitars and techniques Eric mentioned, so here's some demonstration of some basic flamenco techniques. ...

That fire roasted corn was amazing. The sirloin was good too, but I wasn’t expecting the corn to be as delicious as it was. The bacon-wrappe...

Possibly never again; depends on future events. Definitely unprecedented . 

I won't spoil it; go see for yourself . 

An amusing video , clearly inspired by Fallout but with a sense of humor Range 15 fans might appreciate. 

Thanks to D29, who forwarded these remarks by Hall favorite Tulsi Gabbard to me . At one point in the remarks she tells a story about a deba...

A link I saw today mirrors a discussion Tom and I were having in a couple of the posts below. We were talking about piracy ; this is about r...

That tracks .  She's an interesting historian our of the University of Chicago, with books on Viking mythology including a series on Rag...

In conversation with AVI's thoughts on misinterpretations in the history of heredity where he brings up the natural philosopher, astrol...

Someone admitted this woman to the clergy . Not sure whose. She’s very earnest; she has an argument, even. 

I admit that it took me a while to get into this article because of some of the rhetoric, which reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's decla...

A genuine step forward to try to overturn unconstitutional state laws -- even ones that have been allowed to persist for decades .  The Just...

The MIT Press Reader has a story today about how we learned that the NSA had begun spying on Americans in the wake of the Patriot Act. Mos...

Clever . It reminds me of what the cyberpunk novels called 'skillsofts,' except you don't have to jack anything into your head; ...

“Yuan” isn’t actually the name of the Chinese currency; it is called the Renminbi (人民币), or “People’s Currency.” “Yuan” is what is called a...

In the comments to a post at AVI's that began with an interesting character, I noted that pirates were pretty common among the English ...

Megan McArdle proposes what she clearly intends as 'a modest proposal' on firearms ; but she's quite right. Maybe we’re looking ...

A new report argues that our popular understanding of Iran’s mid-20th century history is almost completely wrong . 

A curious decision by the local Jackson County Chamber of Commerce as to what they wanted to highlight about their community, but who am I t...