It's curious how these things happen. My mention yesterday of the cholera epidemic in Zimbabwe set me off on a journey that led all the...

My friend Bill forwarded this link to the website of Stealing America , a movie about electronic voting and its susceptibility to error and ...

A propos of nothing in particular, some readers may remember our once-resident, sometimes curmudgeonly , always interesting Taoist, Carly. ...

... so science tells us, since the birth of our lovely planet. Beautiful, no? Another two billion, give or take, before it dies--assuming ...

Ellie hosted a meeting of professional women in the arts in our house last night, and it was a pleasure to see how well our new place worked...

Georgie met Carly, Carly met Georgie. No, not THAT Carly—not the one who regularly posts comments on The Buddha Diaries. He’s the imposter...

What a pleasure to see those pictures of Stephen Hawking delighting in the experience of weightlessness. I can only begin to imagine how it...

Did you hear they'd discovered huge amounts of water on Mars? Buried in all the news of yesterday was that tiny item, that the European...

Where are their heads? I suspect they may be ensconced in that proverbial nether region where, it's often reported, the sun don't s...