We're talking about Naomi Schaefer Riley, a journalist who dared to make uncomfortable (and most definitely not politically correct!) o...

Imagine the planet Earth.  Now imagine all the water on the planet – the oceans, rivers, lakes, snow, ice, groundwater, water in plants and...

Remembering World War II ; very nicely done...

A very nice list of CS-related blogs .  At least half of these were new to me...

Spoken by Dilbert in today's strip: Do whatever makes you feel less absurd. Awesome!

Which sort of human flesh should you eat?  In medieval Europe, that was an important question ...

... around 150 million years ago ...

Damned if you do, damned if you don't ...

The Canary Islands, that is.  At night.  Beautiful! El Cielo de Canarias 2012 / The Light of Stars from Daniel López on Vimeo .

Now there's perhaps one of my very favorite word pairs: “thwarts” and “terrorist”! There's not a lot of detail available, other th...

So far as I'm aware, I'm not allergic to anything (unless you count liberals).  I grew up on a farm ...

Many years ago I had a consulting gig that required me to analyze the sound made by ball bearings in (very expensive) rotating machinery.  A...

If you're comfortable at the command line, and you have a gmail account, here's something that might interest you: an open source to...

Before and after the Soviet Union, that is.  Der Spiegel has a slide show of before-and-after photos of East Germany .  These could just as...

My girl Rachel Lucas is back blogging (at last!) from her new home in Italy.  Here she makes some observations about recent events in Greece...

What a great idea !  I wish them every success, and I hope this gets replicated for other sciences where reproducability hasn't been tra...

The Heritage Foundation has taken a stab at measuring the degree to which Americans are dependant on government assistance .  Even better,...

I suspect that some of my younger colleagues have never even heard of the Hindenburg .  Having grown up in New Jersey (site of the disaster)...

...but I think he's got some reason to be pissed off, and you can read why in his post TCP Sucks .  If you don't know of Bram, he...

Being against something named the .“Paycheck Fairness Act” sounds like being against motherhood and apple pie, doesn't it?  Of course, t...