Reading this, my first reaction was “Of course he did!” With Hollywood gathering this weekend for the 84th Academy Awards, President Barac...

Seven years plus one week ago today, I made the first post on this blog.  Since then, I've posted 5508 times, or 2.15 posts/day...

In recent months I've accidentally run across a lot of great articles about what it's like to be introverted, and how to embrace it....

I'll let James Delingpole (my favorite English Conservative) introduce him : Professor Richard Lindzen is one of the world's great...

Until this morning I had never heard of Kira Davis .  I ran across the video below, and then I wanted to know more: I'd like to know...

Passed along by my friend and colleague Aleck L. (for whom English is a second language).  As always, click to enlarge:

LinkedIn has an interesting article on what makes remarkable employees so remarkable .  It cites 8 attributes, and some of them resonate str...

The chart at right covers most of my lifetime.  When I first entered the workforce, 88% of all Americans paid income tax.  I paid income t...

Things like this are starting to show up quite regularly...

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...