Search old newspapers...   Tens of thousands of pages of old newspapers have been digitized on this site, and are searchable.  There is no c...

The warmists down under are misbehaving ... and Steve McIntyre takes them to the woodshed .  It feels like an unraveling of the warmist fro...

Ukrainian Easter eggs...   When I was a kid, we had an elderly Hungarian lady (Mrs. Mate) living on our farm with her husband.  She painte...

Tug of war ... between an 850 HP modern John Deere tractor and an 18 HP 1904 steam tractor – and the steam tractor wins.  The John Deere...

I wonder how he explained this to his boss?

Awesome photo...

Healthcare services are scarce goods...   To an economist, the term “scarce goods” means something very specific: that there is greater dema...

Laundry...   Our new home in Paradise, Utah didn't come with a washer and dryer, so we had to buy new ones.  After a bunch of research...

It's still pitch-black this morning ... but I'm being serenaded by beautiful birdsong.  I don't recognize the species.  I need ...

Pruning...   That's what I've spent most of the last three days doing.  Our new home is surrounded by a fair number of trees – inc...

Programming pain...   An article on a topic I've often pondered myself: why is programming so damned hard for most people ?  Some of it ...

Booting up a PDP-11/34...   Well, here's a blast from the past !  When I was just getting started programming computers, in the mid-...

Whoo-o loves ya, Baby? Animal photos, captioned...   A nice collection via my card-carrying, pissed-off, ancient-American mom...

Anemone blanda...   Via BPOD , of course...

Rodney Dangerfield lines...   Via reader Simi L.: My wife only has sex with me for a purpose. Last night she used me to time an egg. It...

What do animals see in the mirror?   A short article on the mirror self-awareness test .  This is a famous test I'd read about several t...

An optimal drinking glass...   How can one compute the shape of the optimal drinking glass?  Isn't that purely aesthetic?  Well, no...

Programming language popularity...   A fascinating log-log scatter chart (well, fascinating to a programming geek, anyway :) that has GitHu...

Hard Work U...   This sounds like such a great idea!   Why hasn't it been copied all over? 

Discrete logarithms weaker than supposed?   I can't access the original paper (and I'm not sure I could understand it even if I did!...