Richard Dawkins Discovers Homo WindbagusLast night, famed biologist and prominent atheist Richard Dawkins made an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, and a more illuminating and revealing six minutes of television I can't…
InspiringThe $150 Space CameraBespoke is old hat. Off-the-shelf is in. Even Google runs the world’s biggest and scariest server farms on computers home-made from commodity parts. DIY is cheaper and often better, as Justi…
The Journey Continues......Approximately 3.5 million years ago, an early hominid walked across fresh volcanic ash in Laetoli, Tanzania. It was unaware of its place among life on Earth. It was unaware of the amazing and …
Ignorance goes better with Coke Recently, pharyngula brought attention to this disturbing bit of news:Thirsty Museum Guests Choose CokeWhen you visit Noah’s Cafe you will notice that our deck is adorned with colorful bri…
Global Warming - Before It Was Cool Typically when reading science-nonfiction it is best to seek out the more recent publications on account of the ever-increasing information and constantly revised theories. But som…
Lucy pulls the football away from Illinois museum-goersFrom the Chicago Sun-Times:The tanking stock market has hit the Field Museum's endowment, which has dropped about $95 million -- 30 percent -- leading to salary cuts…
My new wallpaperThis is a recently released photo taken by the Hubble Telescope of the center of the Milky Way. It is a composite color infrared image that contains an area 115 light years long by 300 light years wide. …
Why I am a member of and contributor to UCSLost among last week's headlines of shoe-throwers and disgraced Illinois politicians was this story reminding me that my modest donations to the UCS are being well spent:Report:…
But I'm sure everything will be fine..... ___________________________________China's journey to the dark agesBiggest cities becoming murky as smog clouds block up to 25 per cent of sun, UN study finds From Friday's Glo…
My letter to the editor:On several occasions, I've read various things in my local paper to which I initially intended to respond. However, either someone would beat me to it or the passage of time would weaken my motiv…
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