Republican 2016 presidential primary...   The current data (derived from Betfair wagering).  While the U.S. polls show Trump and Carson at t...

Online encyclopedia of integer sequences...   I've posted about this fascinating resource before, but today I ran across a nice story a...

I don't get too excited ... when I read about foreign countries spying on us.  One reason why: we do it too .  Another reason: we do al...

Pluto is weird!  The photo at right is one of the latest downlinked from New Horizons from its Pluto encounter earlier this year.  Those...

Paradise ponders...  Earlier this week, Michelle H. (the wonderful woman who cleans our house for us, but who is fast becoming a good frien...

More photos downlinked from New Horizons...   The one at right is of Charon.  I'm still boggled that we're seeing these sorts of i...

This is pretty funny...   It's also the reason why I use a password manager (1Password, in my case)...

Cyr wheel...   That's apparently what this is called.  The performer is Jeremy Buck.  Reader Simi L. sent this along, with this note:...

Japanese maple ... at the Portland (Oregon) Japanese Garden.  I've visited that garden and the very famous tree, though not (unfortun...

That's one very impressive machine!   See the ant-like men working around its bottom to get a good idea of the scale of the thing.  It...

“The fundamental producer of income inequality is freedom.”  Now there's a ponder-worthy quote, and it's my quote of the day.  The ...

Paradise ponders...   We took our walk yesterday at noon, under a partly cloudy sky.  The ground was still damp and slightly muddy from the ...

Paradise ponders...   It rained intermittently yesterday, so the boys (Miki and Race) and I missed our walk.  This morning it's a little...

Free topo maps ... of just about anywhere in the U.S.  This is another example of how modern technology has completely upended the old way ...

Powerful testimony ... at the House Judiciary Committee hearings on Planned Parenthood (aka Baby Parts, Inc.). Like her, I am ashamed t...

Reason interviews Scott Adams...   I'll bet it would be a lot of fun to sit down for an evening of conversation with Scott..

The cranky old lady...   Via my pistol-packing, Macified mom: A very cranky old woman was arrested for shoplifting at a grocery store. ...

Twelve foot tall Cosmos!   My mom sends this photo, saying: Special soil prepared by Scott, grown in 12 inch pot on my deck this summer....

Newspaper headlines...   Reader Simi L. sent along a great collection of classic newspaper headlines.  Many of them I'd seen before, but...

First findings released by New Horizons team...   Good article here .  Lots of new raw photos , too, like the one of somewhere on Pluto at...