On August 5th of this year, at 10:31 PDT, the Curiosity Rover is scheduled to plop down onto the surface of Mars.  It is by far the most ad...

Ann Althouse (one of my favorite bloggers) does a spectacular takedown of Jonathan Turley's proposal to pack the Supreme Court ( a la ...

Lots of truthiness in here ...

Here's a big collection of contemporary political jokes , mostly about either Obama or Romney.  Some of these are as likely to make me c...

Watch the human powered helicopter below stay aloft for 50 seconds.  Awesome!  The Sikorsky Prize ($250,000) has remained unwon for 30 yea...

Scott Adams (of Dilbert fame) has some thoughts on how one becomes a citizen of any particular country.  He doesn't really propose any...

It's a great one below, and there's another where that one came from .  I love illusions like this one that demonstrate so clearly t...

This is the first ever MRI “movie” of a human birth.  It's just 25 seconds long, and is comprised (really) of a series of still images f...

The Mulka Store in Australia ...

Interesting article from NPR (though they've spelled “statolith” incorrectly on their drawing!) and a more detailed explanation ...

This website is full of information and commentary about the futility and waste of the global war on drugs ...

An excellent interview of Peter Wallison by Anthony Randazzo of the Reason Foundation.  Content like this is the main reason why Reason mag...

Via my lovely bride:

Our living room opens onto our patio through a sliding glass door, or at least it used to.  Our old door was an old-fashioned glass door ma...

The University of Virginia is currently dealing with it's own version of the economic crisis facing Greece.  On the one side, fiscal san...

These are industrial robots – by far the most common kind of robot, though many people have never seen one before.  They come in many variet...

Via my mom, a tweet from David Burge (aka Iowahawk ): Apparently, I'm supposed to be angrier about what Mitt Romney does with his mon...

Today is probably the big day: the day that the Supreme Court announces their ruling on the challenge to ObamaCare's constitutionality. ...