On today's military news about Iraq from Strategy Page , there's an interesting article about the effects of the recent battles in T...

For the non-geekly ones amongst my readers: this post is not about coffee! It is about some of the difficulties with resources in the Java...

APOD brings us... Approaching the nucleus of comet Tempel 1 at ten kilometers per second, the Deep Impact probe's targeting camera reco...

Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, September 13, 2005, in a press conference with President Bush in Washington, D.C.: “In the name of Iraqi peo...

Do you know about Hayabusa? Thought not. It's a Japanese robotic space probe, designed to rendezvous with the asteroid Itokawa, study ...

A few days ago, I posted about an apparent break in our streak of hot, dry weather. Well, that break has continued, as you can see at righ...

Hedwig at Living the Scientific Life has an interesting post on the current state of the California Condor. An excerpt about an ailing con...

The field of Information Technology (IT) security — part of my work for many years now — is notoriously full of uninformed "experts...

Stephen Wolfram has published (free, on the web) an application that uses some of his theoretical work to compose music. Not just synthesiz...

HeroicStories is a free mailing list and web site whose motto is "Restoring faith in humanity, one story at a time..." I've ...

In Jamul (south-central San Diego County) we have had weeks of absolutely unrelenting sunshine, dry air, and heat — in the high 90s or low 1...

The CIA's unclassified web site has a very interesting article about a cold war spy named A. G. Tolkachev, a Soviet citizen who voluntee...

The Cassini probe, continuing its long-term mission to explore the Saturn system, has recently returned this spectacular photo of Saturn...

Newton Emerson, writing in the Irish Times: By Newton Emerson As the full horror of Hurricane Katrina sinks in, thousands of desperate colum...

Courtesy of RightWing Nuthouse, here's a most excellent timeline of events in the Katrina disaster . This is a key resource for anyone ...

Mart Laar is a former prime minister of Estonia, and is widely credited with being the "father" of the flat tax in Estonia. In tu...

Claudia Rossett — investigator, observer, and commentator par excellence — has a new column up on OpinionJournal that's a worthwhile r...

APOD brings us... The tiger stripes on Saturn's moon Enceladus might be active. Even today, they may be spewing ice from the moon's...

Thanks for the laugh, Tigerhawk!

MESSENGER (Wikipedia) (seen at right in an artist's impression) is a NASA spacecraft on its way to the planet Mercury for a mission of ...