Via reader Jim M.: Remember this when you vote next November... For my readers who are not up on their science: 185,999 miles/second i...

I'm an engineer.  My mother emailed this to me.  Do you think she sent it for the political humor in it?  I'm not so sure... All...

Reader Simi L. passes along a new variation on an old classic: The tribal wisdom of the Indians, passed on from generation to generation,...

Here's video of a very nice run that Miki and Debbie made in competition last Sunday.  They did a terrific job...

Reader Simi L. sends this comforting thought along... There is finally conclusive evidence that Osama bin Laden and Muammar Gaddafi are d...

Reader Jim M. sends along a collection of photos of doormats.  I liked this one!

Two readers send me parables about the perils of assuming senior stupidity.  First, from my mom: A lawyer and a senior citizen are sittin...

I'm not a big jelly bean fan.  I can't remember the last time I ate one.  But I love this video! How it was made .

Borrego Springs is a community in the desert just to the east of our coastal range.  Reader Larry E. was out there this past weekend, and se...

This reminds me strongly of an episode in Neil Stephenson's trilogy...

This is something I would never have predicted: the Zetas (the notoriously violent Mexican drug cartel) and the hacker's group Anonymous...

Now this is cool – forty years ago, Jerry Lowe built this ring-counter based clock .  This is before microcomputers and before LEDs (and b...

The Wall Street Journal's commentary pages today prominently feature an article by Andrew Krepinevich, who describes a new and parlous t...

This is the best summary I've seen yet , from IEEE Spectrum...

...then go read this !

This appears to be for real – here's the data sheet (PDF) right off Maxwell's site. Awesome...

Randy Cassingham's excellent spam (email spam, not the meat product) primer .  You should read this even if you think you know everythin...

I have no idea how to pronounce that, but I know it's beautiful.  From Botany Photo of the Day , of course.  As usual, click to enlarge....

Reader Dave H. passes this along, saying “If you are in a book store and cannot find the book for which you search, then obviously you are...