Selasphorus rufus Selasphorus rufus , aka the Rufous Hummingbird , is a migratory visitor to us each spring.  Occasionally individuals w...

Larry E. writes after reading my post about the $200G manzanita transplantation: A little follow up to our Manzanita story. Part of the ...

...of the World Wide Web.  This is the full text, with accompanying diagrams, of Tim Berners-Lee's original proposal to CERN , in March ...

Ann McElhinney was a self-described typical European Liberal, with all the baggage that connotes – until she had a life-changing experience....

Reader Larry E. passes along this story about $205,075 of stimulus money being used to transplant a manzanita bush .  He comments: Well, h...

It's my blog; I can have two quotes of the day!  This one is from Mark Steyn: Sometimes societies become too stupid to survive. A nat...

Kip Hawley was the head of the TSA for over three years, just before Obama took office.  He has a piece in today's Wall Street Journal ...

From an interview with Roger Scruton in the Wall Street Journal : Many of the people who brand themselves as climatologists are not in the...

The Washington Times has video of some of the five survivors...

This is completely cool...

Remember this when you vote in November:

April 18th, just a few days from now, is the 70th anniversary of Jimmy Doolittle's raid on Tokyo, in carrier-launched B-25 bombers.  Thi...

Start with a quiet little square in Belgium, a place where nothing really happens.  Then add a little drama...

Scientific papers are not generally noted for their literary qualities (or even for their readability!).  So to see a such a science paper e...

Wednesday night is “pot pie night” at the Descanso Junction Restaurant , and we were there last night.  At right is the chicken pot pie th...

It's not often that your reaction to reading a legal document is “Hey, that was pleasant !”  Check out the right-hand column in the lin...

Ptilotus spathulatus, aka “cat's paw” or ”pussytails”.  I saw this while in Australia, back in the '70s.  They feel just like they l...

This past weekend Debbie ran both Miki and Race in an agility competition.  This was Race's very first such competition.  In the video b...

Look closely at this time-lapse movie and you'll see a line of “stars” that don't move as the real stars rotate.  Those are geostati...