India's Environment and Forests minister isn't an Al Gore fan ... The IPCC is getting an independent review.  Well, that's wha...

LOX (liquid oxygen), a high-pressure Dewar tank rescued from a scrap yard, and two not-particularly-well-informed fellows.  What could possi...

There once was a tree that had no neighbor within 120 miles...

What he said. People who know me are often surprised that I support legalizing drugs.  Judge Jim Gray does a better job of articulating ...

There's no way this injured Marine was going to give the Taliban any satisfaction ...

Almost 500 pounds of it!  And you can have your very own for roughly $5 million (depending on the current price of gold, naturally)...

I bridle every time I see that term: “tax revenues” – implying that the government somehow earned the money they're stealing from me! ...

One of our favorite blogresses, Cassandra at Villainous Company , has lost her battle buddy: her 13 year old Dachshund.  To anyone who has l...

As you may have seen on the news, it's been very cold in Iowa, so cold in fact that we have borrowed a Norwegian Icebreaker from Minneso...

Marthinus van Schalkwyk has been nominated (by the South African government, presumably) to head the UNFCC in the wake of Yvo de Boer's...

Scott Adams, a free-weight rack that arrived disassembled, a visit to Home Depot, and a Shop-Vac.  What could possibly go wrong ?

Two informative posts at Watts Up With That? , one on the non-linearity of CO2's effects vs. concentration , and the other on yet anoth...

The always-excellent Michael Totten recently visited Romania, and his resulting piece lives up to his high standards .  Hit his tip jar, won...

I've been saying this for years ...

Several states have passed the so-called “Amazon tax”, intended to force Amazon to collect sales tax for the state.  These tax measures are ...

An Amercian soldier who served in World War II complains to his doctor of what he presumes is arthritis – and discovers that he has had a bu...

Last month a student at NYU was peeved because a professor (Scott Galloway) wouldn't admit him to the class when he showed up an hour la...

It's starting to happen, thanks to the conjunction of cheap bandwidth and cheap storage.  Here's a great example: back up your Mac t...

...they figure out how to answer it.  In this case, an engineer had a vital question: would a lava lamp work on the surface of Jupiter ? ...

Driving into work this morning, I noticed a car that passed me because its taillights were a distinctly different shade of red.  A few minut...