It started out so lovely.  Pleasant, cool weather; pretty puffy clouds and bright sunshine.  Debbie is leaving tomorrow morning for a five-d...

Don't miss her comedy debut near the end – she's surprisingly good...

Lots of stuff today... Another flying pig moment: the New York Times finally writes about ClimateGate (even using the word!).  The articl...

At right is a map of extensive underground water ice fields near the surface of Mars.  These ice fields are up to a kilometer thick, and ar...

An editorial in today's WSJ ends with this: In other words, he's volunteering Democrats in Congress to march into the fixed bayone...

The Royal Society of Chemistry piles on ... Phil Jones is on the hot seat ...

This is the Air France flight that crashed off the coast of Brazil.  Interesting, but scary ...

Just two more days to wait ...

Really, it did !

Pictured at right is CVN 77 (the USS George H. W. Bush) in a hard turn to port (left).  It nicely illustrates a phenomenon that catches a lo...

Interesting theory about why Iran recently moved their stocks of enriched uranium from deep, protected underground storage to an open, abov...

McDonald v. Chicago matters a lot, if you care about your right to bear arms ...

Two parents in Argentina, apparently distressed about global warming, decided to kill their two children and themselves .  They shot their c...

Mickey Kaus is one of the amazingly few liberal bloggers whose posts I can read without retching.  The man thinks hard, applies lessons from...

They're breeding in the wild in China ...

For years now, I've noticed a pattern when I'm working on tough engineering problems: I'll work on it for some time (usually sev...

Via my brother Mark: You bet we can!

Via my mom: Over five thousand years ago, Moses said to the children of Israel “Pick up your shovel, mount your asses and camels, and I wil...

Here's a depressing look at what's happened in Massachusetts since they implemented a healthcare program quite similar to ObamaCare...

CalTech is reporting development of a new solar power material with 86% conversion efficiency ( versus the 15% to 20% of conventional mono...