Via my mom:

Via my mom, who says a doctor friend sent it to her: When I was young my intent was to go to medical school.  The entrance exam included...

Eyjafjallajökull is the Icelandic volcano that erupted in 2010, disrupting air traffic and spewing immense amounts of ash, carbon dioxide, ...

They think that the juvenile male grizzly opened the door of this Toyota Sequoia while looking for food.  Then he crawled in, and the door...

This question came to me as I was pondering the consequences of a disarmed citizenry.  It occurred to me that I had no idea how many people ...

...and both are pointing down , strongly.  Dang.  Looks like we might not be headed for a recovery just yet...

Via my mom, and totally self-explanatory:

Long time readers know that periodically I rail on about the sorry state of math and science education in the U.S.  One of my oft-expressed ...

Today's Day-by-Day cartoon is excellent . A clip:

This is definitely geek humor ; everyone else can just skip it.  Most of these were new to me.  There were quite a few that made instant sen...

A duck rescue.  Well done!

The U-550 was a type IXC/40 German U-boat , commissioned on July 28, 1943 and sunk about 70 miles off the coast of Nantucket, Massachusett...

Plus he's whining about the prison food. From a legal perspective, does amnesia make it impossible to convict someone?  Is that actual...

And there will be a whole lot more like this.  From the news article in the Indianapolis Business Journal : Cook Medical Inc. had been pla...

Screen capture of FoxNews front page yesterday. Pretty much says it, eh? Via my mom:

Nicely done!

Via my mom: Two Minnesota engineers were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up.  A woman walks by asks what they were doing. “V...