Drums like you've never seen them before, trust me:

From Mark Steyn, during his substitute stint on the Rush Limbaugh show yesterday .  I didn't hear this, but I wish I had: You’re doome...

Yesterday at 9:56:06 Pacific time there was a magnitude 4.7 earthquake near Anza, California .  There were also a number of smaller quakes b...

Sam Harris has an excellent piece about how it feels when a cherished belief collides with reality as understood by science .  In particular...

Many people are attracted to either all-electric or hybrid cars because they believe they are helping the environment by doing so – they are...

The side-mounted rear-view mirrors on our new FJ Cruiser are roughly rectangular in shape, mounted with the long side vertical (usually t...

Via friend and reader Doug W. , who points out, tongue-in-cheek, that “Of course, this kind of issue has no relation whatsoever to the clima...

It jumped 263 feet ! But this isn't your momma's grasshopper:

Nearly every time I read some of Benjamin Franklin's writings I am surprised by his wit and humor.  I need to read more :) Here's ...

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This morning I read that Afghan President Karzai just accused the U.S. of colluding with Taliban ($WSJ) to persuade the Afghan public that ...

Consider the following formulae: π 2 ≈ 9.87 g ≈ 9.81 N/k The constant g is the gravitational constant, for the force of gravity at the...

Whenever a politician tells you that our economy is recovering, remember this graph.  We won't have a real recovery until the employment...

Space junk, that is – not a ship .  This prognosis pretty much sums it up: It is not immediately clear whether the satellite is merely wou...

An entertaining demonstration of hydrophobic materials:

Via Watts Up With That , this awesome TED talk by Dr. Allan Savory.  He shows how people on five continents have reversed desertification by...

From Mark Steyn's current piece on the drone debate : The guys with drones are losing to the guys with fertilizer — because they mean ...