Six bills the new GOP congress should pass...   Glenn Reynolds (aka “Instapundit”) has six great choices that I'd support .  I won't...

Philae's landing site...  Won't be long now!

The letter “F”...   This is what a penciled “F” on a piece of graph paper looks like at 60x.  Sure doesn't look like this to the naked...

This doesn't look good...   The graph at right neatly encapsulates what many are calling fraudulent science.  The blue line is the raw...

Should we choose our Congress-critters randomly?   William F. Buckley famously said: I'd rather entrust the government of the United...

True random number generation...   This article (by John Denker, author of numerous other interesting documents ) discusses building a low ...

Electronic medical records...   Every doctor I've talked to about electronic medical records hates them.  They require huge amounts of ...

Sherlock Holmes debugging...   I never thought of it quite like this , but the general technique described (working backwards from the sympt...

Free speech being strangled...   Along with many other (mostly older) observers, I've watched sadly as America's strong tradition of...

Politically correct slavery...   For decades now, Cuba has been sending medical teams to hot spots in the world.  I've always thought of...

Digging position...   I spent most of my day today with my tractor in digging position, as shown in this photo (click to embiggen).  Note ...

NGC 6543 – the Cat's Eye nebula...   As seen by the Hubble Space Telescope.  Via APOD , of course.  It looks like one of those super h...

Well, duh...   Meta-study of the impact of genetically modified crops reveals ... that their impact is overwhelmingly positive ...

Schadenfreude , image edition...

A real balancing act...   The two videos below show “balance artist” Rocky Byun balancing various objects in very unlikely-looking position...

NGC 660: a polar ring galaxy ...   This image was captured by the Gemini observatory on Mauna Kea, on the Big Island of Hawai'i.  Via...

What's the biggest cash crop?   It's marijuana, by a good margin – though I'm not sure how rigorous the data is that supports...

Some programming language musings...   First up, a paper by the authors of Julia .  It's already on my list of winter explorations.  The...

Whatever you might think of him ... and I find much to admire ... you must admit that Elon Musk thinks big ...

Holy moly!   Watch this landing on what is allegedly a landing strip...