Russian peasants allegedly used binary math to multiply, and didn't even know they were doing so.  The explanation .  I have no idea if ...

...and this consequence I like.  Colonel West, elected to the House of Representatives from Florida this past November: Oh, more like th...

I'm not at all sure what this graphic is actually telling me, but somehow it's very amusing nonetheless .  The darker the color on t...

Astronaut Ed Mitchell took a series of photos out the window of the Antares landing module during Apollo 14.  Much more recently, using mode...

Some Italian scientists are claiming that they have a working cold fusion reactor that is nearly ready for production.  I'm skeptical. ...

From APOD , of course.

Today is the 100th anniversary of Ronald Reagan's birth. Oh, how I long for him today... Peggy Noonan (who worked for Reagan) has a ...

The gist of the story : The local government, advised by engineers, does something that some local citizens don't like. The local ci...

As seen by the La Silla Observatory , in Chile.  Ole!

Via Frankie T.  I've seen some of these photos before, but never with any explanation.  The lead from the article accompanying the pho...

Brought to life in a beautiful roll-over map with pop-up images of the flags and information on their origin.  Somebody put a lot of work i...

The Daily Caller is running this image front and center, with no real explanation (either there or in the article it points to) of its orig...

Neal Stephenson (yes, that Neal Stephenson) with an excellent piece on rockets as an example of technological lock-in .  It includes a fasc...

FOB Waza K'wah gets resupplied by the only means available: air drop.  This photo shows fuel being dropped.  Our guys are fighting out i...

The most accessible explanation of human color vision and perception I've seen.  Even so, it doesn't shy from the mysteries that mos...

Where the code is on lottery tickets.  A Canadian statistician figured out how to pick winning tickets in a “scratcher” lottery – without sc...

On one page ...

Courtesy of Google and museums around the world ...

It's cold and windy – the winds are gusting up to about 25 MPH (40 kph) and the temperature is around 40°F (5°C).  The sky is crystal-cl...

... to help the folks in Egypt .  Good for Google!