The zipper...   Via reader Simi L.: In a crowded city at a busy bus stop, a woman who was waiting for a bus was wearing a tight leather sk...

Evening in Paradise...   I took a ride on my ATV, to one of the higher hills in the valley.  It's only about two miles from home, over...

Pater: a Father's Day memory...   Of course my thoughts today kept wandering to memories of my dad.  At one point I tried to remember an...

I've had the privilege of knowing quite a few children of immigrants...   Any one of those people could have been in this video (thoug...

Must-read piece on the impact climate change is having on science...   By Matt Ridley, writing at The Quadrant .  A sample from the beginnin...

Someday I won't cry on Father's day...   But today is not that day.  We miss you, dad...

This is what happens when a tech company has $200B in cash...   They start doing really weird stuff that you'd never expect from a hard...

Mama, don't let your kids grow up to be ... weed-pullers, lest they turn out like the character at right.  That's my neighbor Tim...

Took the dogs for a dawn walk ... and that's what it looked like to our east.  We had just enough light to walk up the hill; by the t...

The seasons of Saturn...   As imaged by the Cassini probe.  Via APOD , of course.  Full resolution version here . Not long ago, I was ta...

Morning in Paradise...   I woke up at 3:30 this morning, and I could tell that I wasn't going to be able to go back to sleep.  So I go...

Progress in Paradise...   Did you ever have one of those projects that you thought was going to be a trivial thing turn into the project fr...

His very own Harrier...

Language distribution...   Here's a simple graphic showing how many people speak each of the world's major languages.  There were de...

Progress in Paradise...   Debbie's still getting a little better each day.  Her appetite (which has been suppressed by the pain meds) is...

Debbie update...   Well, we're back – and with unexpected news.  Good news, mainly. When we checked in for her appointment, we were su...

There are many ways ... that people can demonstrate their craziness.  These two decided to do it by flying tandem through a hangar at 185...

A big step in browser-as-a-platform...  It's extraordinary to see such broad cooperation amongst browser makers.  It's almost like ...

Biological compass located...   It will be interesting to see if this same sensor can be found in higher animals...

An online plant identification service...   This is an amazing concept, a mix of automation and botanists identifying any plant from photogr...