Coronal heating mystery solved?   I've been reading for years about this science mystery – temperatures in the corona (the plasma aro...

Goats on cliffs...  What is it with goats and cliffs, anyway?  Goats seem to have a strange attraction for places that threaten to kill ...

Uh oh...   It's been a while since I last posted a snapshot of the Google Unemployment Index .  The past couple of weeks have seen a spi...

The One is great at math! He divides the country, He subtracts jobs, He adds debt, He multiplies misery. The man's a regular f...

Scottie pinwheel...   Puppies are involved.  Blow it up to full screen! Via my lovely bride...

It's embarrassing!  The Washington Redskins have been embroiled in a controversy over their name.  They have resolved the controversy b...

Dying wish... Washington , D.C. an old priest lay dying in the hospital. For years he had faithfully served the people of the nation's...

Tribute to a fallen farmer...   Kyle Hendrix, a farmer in Monticello, Illinois, recently died of cancer.  He was just 31 years old, and le...

“Senate Leaders in Striking Distance of a Deal”   Now there's a scary headline!  Translation: soon we'll know exactly how they'...

Worser and worser...   Megan McArdle is learning more about the ObamaCare implementation, and she's not liking what she's seeing (...

Urban legends.  That's what ObamaCare enrollees have become.  We hear about them, but nobody has actually seen one.  Reason has a ...

Sure looks like fun!  Does anybody know where this is???

Reduce your income.   If you want to lower the impact of the new, higher ObamaCare health insurance premiums, that's the advice from S...

“Mr. President, tear down this wall!”  I never would have imagined that Reagan's trenchant sentence could be reused.  Well played, si...

Dance of the atoms – in the world's thinnest sheet of glass, imaged by an electron microscope as it's being bent .  Awesome!

“Never mind.”   Scott Adams' all-time favorite Dilbert: Interview and his top ten list ...

Mars, with some changes.   This photo was taken yesterday by the Curiosity rover, then corrected to make colors appear as they would if th...

Mosaiculture: “A refined horticultural art that involves creating and mounting living artworks made primarily from plants with colorful ...

Flying pig moment!   Spotted in an article I read this morning in the dead fish wrapper known as the New York Times : The research come...

Veterans: 1, President StompyFoot: 0.   They're not going to take it any more!  Veterans today stormed and took several memorials in W...