This was just too good to not share.  I have no idea (and neither does Snopes ) whether this story, allegedly written by a rancher, is true...

Unlike Rick Perry, Herman Cain I know a bit about.  I've been reading about him ever since his (failed) run for the GOP Senate candidacy...

A breakthrough involving graphene may lead us (finally!) to a definition of the ampere directly derived from the electron charge ...

Via reader Simon M.: Somewhere there's a newspaper headline editor who either (1) badly needs a refresh of his idiomatic English, o...

Via my colleague Aleck L.:

NASA is tracking a large sunspot group, named Active Region 1302 (or AR1302).  One of its satellites captured this image of AR1302 emittin...

Via reader Doug S., these stories of things that pets ate .  The grand prize winner's photo is at right: a dog taken to the vet for la...

A visual pun, via my lovely wife:

Kate, my nonagenarian mother-in-law, has been visiting with us for the last three weeks.  Yesterday we put her on the plane for her trip hom...

Via my mom: Excerpt from a dog's diary... 8:00 am - Dog food! My favourite thing! 9:30 am - A car ride! My favourite thing! 9:40...

My sister finds more weird and awesome mushrooms in her yard ...

  Excellent!

Dry ice on Mars, in the process of sublimating.  From APOD , of course.

A treatise on how to write programs that are very difficult to maintain.  As any experienced programmer will recognize, the techniques are c...

This may be an elaborate hoax, but it sure looks real.  The tagline looks like a joke, though: The USBTypewriter™ is a new and groundbrea...

More than likely you heard the news yesterday: scientists at CERN have made the results of an experiment public – and those results seem to ...

I received the following email from my mother this morning: To save the economy, on September 27, 2011, the government will start deportin...

I posted very briefly about Trello last week.  I've been using it ever since to keep track of my personal “to do” list, and so far it...

Long-time readers will already know that Dr. Feynman is one of my personal heroes.  I recently ran across something I'd read years ago –...