I'd pay good money for the opportunity to do this.  I think just once, though...

This image was captured by a girl's high school astronomy club in Sydney, Australia.  Via APOD , of course.

Three weeks on flotsam, with no food or water – then rescued by men who had given up all hope of finding any survivors. That's one hap...

From Google , via reader Simon M.  Looks ... tiring ! Watch the video, and don't forget to click on the "Try Gmail Motion" b...

Via my mom: Wow!

...on Professor Muller , whom I wrote about a few days ago.

This site is interesting on several levels: as a demonstration of accessible data mining, as a tool for quantative history study, and as a ...

Phong shading (a computer graphics technique) helps to solve (tentatively, for the moment) a long-standing mystery in physics: the Pioneer A...

This is a bit exaggerated by a common bias: not including the entire software industry (and, similarly, other makers of “intangible” product...

You can reduce it to one word: rubbish .

I don't know anything beyond this news report .  The bare facts: 10 sailors on the USS Stennis (off the coast of San Diego) were injured...

At least superficially, Mercury closely resembles our own planet's fair moon . Go, MESSENGER, go!

Via Ricochet , this jaw-dropper: A Hamas official quoted by the International Crisis Group, or ICG, said the move violated the "reason...

An interesting presentation on climate change science:

Via Doug S., Jimmy C., Laura F., Bob C. and probably several others whom I've forgotten: James Gosling, of Java fame and recently resign...

This video was recommended to me by reader and friend Doug W.; it's over an hour long and I haven't had the time yet to view it myse...

MESSENGER is doing fine.  The mission controllers are progressing along their planned “wake up” sequence, working their way through all the ...

The FBI has an old, unsolved murder case wherein one of the main clues is some (apparently) encrypted notes (like the one at right; click to...

Lakes Entertainment has posted their latest results , and it's more of the same: the long, slow slide downhill.  I've heard no other...

Via Dave H.: The Wizard of Oz is 70 years old. However if today Dorothy were to encounter men with no brain, no heart or no courage, she w...