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Bruce Schneier has a nice piece up on CNN (of all places!), all about drawing the wrong lessons from horrific events .  This was prompted by...

U.K. colleague Paul H. sends along this nice BBC piece and the animation below: And here's another variation, with William Shatner: ...

Doug S. wrote to ask for my thoughts on Dr. Milton Friedman.  He didn't say, but I assume what prompted him was that yesterday was the 1...

The Economist has some ideas about naming the various bits of Europe.  My favorite: “Solvent Europe”, which Estonia is part of...

The newspaper business' traditional business model was a fairly simple one: you created a newspaper with content that people found compe...

This coming Sunday night is when Curiousity faces its seven minutes of terror as it lands on Mars .  I'll be staying up (very late for m...

Anthony Watts is a prominent anthropogenic global warming skeptic, and his web site Watts Up With That is a prime source of information for...

Lyndon Baines Johnson (aka “LBJ”) was the U.S. president in the years I was a teenager (1963 - 1969).  In my memory he's closely associ...

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: