Incoming

What about an anvil?... I don't really get this but apparently there are people walking among us who like to pile stuff on cats . Now st...

Early to bed, early to rise - it's in the genes?... There are people whose body clocks are stuck in another time zone seemingly. They ar...

Here we go... Farmers are bidding up inputs, exactly as predicted by Pasour and Rucker in their obscure economic tome " Plowshares and ...

"Did you get that in Egypt?" "No, that's Barney"... Good ideas never really disappear, they just wait for full fund...

I had a Calc III professor - Dr. Peter Palmer - who could draw spherical sections with the same uncanny accuracy. Still you gotta admire som...

I thought our weather has been screwy... Lightning, sunset, rainbow - what more could you ask? [via Neatorama]

Who worships where... The revival of religion has surprised many jaded world observers. But often we are not sure who's on first. Behol...

But what will I do with all the money left over?... Could we see $20 oil in the future ? As improbable as it seems, some are predicting it ...

Refuting the Gospel of Helplessness... I use the label for the apocalyptic philosophies so prevalent today but so short on evidence. The Gos...

We Trekies have infiltrated the highest levels of government. Bwaa-haa-haaa! Who's laughing at the nerds now, huh?

Not unimportantly, it demonstrates Putnam's academic integrity... I have been a big fan of Robert Putnam's bestselling book Bowling...

Where little green men really came from... A really disappointing explanation of how this phrase entered popular usage. About an hour after...

Save your fingers... Should have mentioned this on the earlier post about how I write this blog . Some of my abbreviations: BTW - by the wa...

Pillar fight!... I have long maintained - somewhat humorously, somewhat cynically - that the Four Pillars of American Farm Policy were: The...

That other war isn't going well either... The incredibly expensive and questionably effective "War On Drugs" hasn't offere...

Works for me... I've killed time in enough airports to consider using a micro-hotel like this : These are similar to " capsule hote...

Beef - it's what's in the cross hairs... Sometimes you don't know whether to laugh or cry. For example, consider this headline f...

From the Aussies - insurgents get attitude. [via Neatorama]

That was fast... Moments after we have laid socialism-slayer Milton Friedman to rest, this durable old economic philosophy popped up twice ...

Make note of your reaction to this clip of Honda's Asimo robot "running". Also notice (and if you desire, add to) the comments...