PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) is an organization that bills itself an “animal rights” organization.  Their mission sta...

Oh, exactly right, Chris!  Exactly right...

Bullshit! , they say...

Simon M. passes this along , saying “If I'd read this on April 1st I'd have thought it was a joke.”  Here's the start of the pie...

Via reader Jim M.: As a bagpiper, I play many gigs. Recently I was asked by a funeral director to play at a graveside service for a homele...

It's that time of year again – time for the inevitable “Best of the Year” lists.  Here's our first one: best science breakthroughs o...

Sorry about the light blogging, friends.  We've been a tad busy :) First, on Christmas Eve, Debbie had her “two month” surgery followu...

Here's a nice discussion of the strange gaseous hexagon at the north pole of Saturn , as imaged by the awesome Cassini probe...

These days when we have a candidate for a position at work, it's pretty much routine to a search on sites like LinkedIn and Facebook, as...

These really bad puns are courtesy of reader Simi L., who says “These are so bad I just had to send them...” The roundest knight at King ...

Today is the 125th anniversary of the birth of Srinivasa Ramanujan .  Some 20 years ago, an Indian colleague and friend told me about Ramanu...

Excellent article exploring (and explaining) something that is counter-intuitive to almost everyone: truly random data doesn't look ra...

Dave Mandl writes (intro) : There’s a kind of cognitive dissonance in most people who’ve moved from the academic study of computer scienc...

Courtesy of the incomparable Rachel Lucas .  Read it, and send the links to your favorite believers in the efficacy of gun control...

Wow:

Excerpt from Mark Steyn's piece: It would not be imprudent to expect that an ever-broker America, with more divorce, fewer fathers, t...

Best piece on gun control I've read in a while ...

A couple of good sources for free or cheap icons and graphic elements: here and here ...

This post in Nature is about the biological sciences, but it's just as applicable to climate science .  The old saw “Follow the money!”...