It's been many years since I last saw the inside of a Playboy magazine.  But I do remember that the articles there (yes, I did actually ...

For me, one of the constant delights of engineering is that any design, no matter how good it is, can be improved.  Even seemingly simple...

A nuclear fusion laboratory in a garage – that would be quite enough to pique your interest, no?  It gets even better: the person construc...

Via Botany Photo of the Day , of course:

Though I'm almost sixty years old, I spend very little time even thinking about my age – and none at all actually worrying about it.  ...

An inspiring 12 minute video, via reader Simon M.:

A logician's investigation, via my mom: What is a cat? Cats do what they want. They rarely listen to you. They're totally unpr...

Don't. Tread. On. Me. Via my mom:

The Black-Scholes equation is little-known outside of financial circles.  It's challenging to explain if you don't understand the fi...

A few weeks ago, a group of prominent scientists skeptical of the claims of anthropogenic global warming (AGW) supporters published an open ...

Indeed...

Great.  One of the few things the world's governments has managed to do well is to keep their regulatory mitts off the Internet.  Now a ...

Via my lovely bride (click the photo to enlarge it):

But probably not quite the kind of action you're thinking of (and no, not that kind either!).  Here's a video taken by a SEAL with ...

There's some interesting evidence that Adolf Hitler had a son: Jean-Marie Loret, who died in 1985 aged 67, never met his father, but w...

What they're really doing...

...but it sure seems like we're working on it:

...should not quit his day job:

Spent a few minutes perusing it, and it looks reasonably good .  And free!

Oh, man, would I love to do this! Via my mom: