That headline, of course, is taken from Ahmadinejad's speech yesterday to the United Nation's General Assembly – that most disgustin...

Via reader Jim M.: A Tale Of Two Doctors Two patients limp into two different medical clinics with the same complaint. Both have trouble...

Michael Yon has published (with permission) a letter from a soldier in Afghanistan to his father.  Yon (by email) said that he has verified...

...it's time to be looking for another job.  The graph below shows the most abrupt decline of an entire major industry I've ever hea...

From Botany Photo of the Day , of course:

Via reader Simi L.:

Very cool:

The ship of California State is sinking.  Guess what's happening ?

Via my mom:

 Here's an image from the Mars Hand Lens Imager, a camera designed to work just like a geologist's hand-held lens.  You're see...

This video is awesome.  The two guys in it are completely insane: Here's Geoff Mackley's web site , and here's a map showin...

That's the attention-grabbing headline.  The phrase “injury mortality” distinguishes death from injury of any kind from death by disease...

I've never liked the whole idea of plea bargaining, for several reasons.  The aspect that bothers me most is that plea bargaining encour...

Over the years I've written several “math packs” – collections of mathematical functions that can't be performed on the underlying c...

I knew that goats were agile creatures, but I never suspected they could do something like this: When I see something like this, I'm ...

...from which to watch the U.S. go down the drain.  Conrad Black is the author; here's his blistering conclusion: And now, in an astou...

According to Mickey Kaus , one of the few sane Democrats writing on the web...

The Curiosity team is almost finished with the checkout phase.  Meanwhile, on the way to their first “real” science assignment, drove by t...

Naturally, New Jersey is first with this likely-to-be-growing trend.  They have banned smiling on driver's license photos.  Really !