...in the crucial Halloween mask race .  Via reader Simon M.

A great collection of paraprosdokians ( a favorite form of humor of Winston Churchill and Groucho Marx ), via my mom: 1. Where there'...

Via my mom: Ever walk into a room with some purpose in mind, only to completely forget what that purpose was? Turns out, doors themselves ...

Reader Doug S. passes along this story of the unexpectedly warm temperatures Curiosity is finding on the surface of Mars ...

Geologist want to drill a hole all the way through the Earth's crust and take samples of the molten mantle .  This is far more difficult...

John Dennis is a Republican candidate for the House of Representatives, running against California's shame: Nancy Pelosi.  Even more sha...

Last evening, the Daily Caller released the video below of Barack Obama addressing a mostly-black audience in 2007 .  In the video he lavish...

Curiosity is still chugging away up there on Mars, quietly doing great science work every day.  All systems are now checked out, and Curiosi...

The latest results from the Iowa Electronic Markets are at right.  They're still calling Obama a 3:1 favorite over Romney, but looky t...

CATO with another interesting post on education ...

Remember this when you vote in November...

“What is that?”, you may well be asking... It's a rock on Mars, seen up close and personal, much as if you were there in person wit...

CATO has a great article analyzing the return on our investment in public education .  Conclusion: Zip.  Nada.  Doo-dah.  All that money i...

...from my mom: I was engaged in some deep thinking on a range of topics. At one point I considered this age old question: Which is more...

I'd like to think that this sort of behavior by the American leadership would be absolutely unthinkable.  Unfortunately, here in the rea...

A nice collection from Sean Anderson , with C code examples...

This is my first attempt, ever, at writing lyrics to a song.  Sing to the tune of John Lennon's Imagine : Imagine there's Nobama ...

I suspect this started as a joke.  Steven Olson applied for a patent on a method for swinging on a swing.  The patent appears to be quite na...

If you own and iPhone (as I do), and you upgraded to IOS6 (as I did), you've probably already had first hand experience with the massive...

Charlie Martin has a great post on how polls get so badly skewed – especially as election day draws near .  Anyone who believes that the pol...