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We could have had early warning of the Greek debt crisis...

I've read about this famous little bit of WWII analysis before, and then read a bit more about Dr. Wald on the web.  It's an inter...

I'm not sure where this originated, but it's a great presentation of a bunch of English expressions still in common use that actua...

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Cassini is still hard at work in the Saturnian system, returning scads of good science data every day.  The photo at right (click to enla...

Math joke: “An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The first one tells the bartender he wants a beer. The second one says ...

A whole new meaning for OMG ! Via my mom, both the photo at right and the story below... I was eating lunch on the 20th of February wi...

In recent years, the quality of the solar images scientists can capture has gone up dramatically.  The one at right shows the edge of a su...

Via my mom: A farmer was selling his peaches door to door. He knocked on a door and a shapely 30-something woman dressed in a very sheer n...

Via reader Simon M., who saw this on Facebook: A guy walked into the local welfare office to pick up his check. He marched straight up to ...

Via reader Eric J., who points out that some of them are applicable to software design as well.  I'll add that many of them are applicab...

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Via Bill Gross.  Hysterical!  A few samples : His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer w...

Reader Jim M. shares this observation: The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Sioux Indian tribe, passed on from generation to generation, says ...

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