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A bunch of States have State Dinosaurs ?  I guess that since it's true that nobody's Life, Liberty, or Property are safe when the Le...

An Extinction Level Event is when something - we typically don't really understand what - causes a mass die-off, with 60% or more of sp...

There were a lot of thoughtful posts that I put up in 2010 - and especially in the first half of 2010.  One of the reasons that I went throu...

To the commission chosen to superintend the sacrifices. From Aurelia Ammonous, daughter of Mystus, of the Moeris quarter, priestess of the ...

Isegoria finds a fascinating article (at Politico, of all places) that paints Steve Bannon as perhaps the most interesting man in Washingto...

Computer programming culture (called "hacker" culture in the days before the term got co-opted by Black Hats; these were the origi...

One of the big tech buzz phrases lately is "the Internet of Things".  Moore's Law has suggested that computing power and memor...

It's long been known that there's a very close correlation between Solar Magnetic Activity (Sunspots) and climate . This is the be...

It may have been volcanoes: Tens of thousands of years of lava flow from the Deccan Traps , a volcanic region near Mumbai in present-day...

Six months ago, Bob left a comment to this post : Ted, have you even mentioned any men or women that you would be willing to support for ...

OK, this is completely useless information but helps explain how the Hadrosaurs were so wildly successful : The results, published today i...

Image via Wikipedia Even in Alexander the Great's time, the War Chariot was an anachronism.  The height of the Age of Chariots was t...

It used to be that the Republican Party was the party for squares.  All of the Cool Kids hung out over with the Democrats, who would mock th...

Anyone who doesn't take Truth seriously in small matters can't be trusted in large ones either. - Albert Einstein The Intellect...

I posted about this a couple days ago, but this brilliant post at Zero Hedge lays out why: The primary "news" narrative may be ...

... is epic .  It's impossible to excerpt, but you'll thank me for pointing it out once you've read it.  To save everyone time, ...

An important lesson for our children , no doubt.

Then Hashem said to Moshe: Hold out your arm towards the sky that there may be darkness upon the land of Egypt, a darkness that can be touc...

A lot of people think of Classical Music as completely SWPL.  Aristocratically commissioned, it's the the type of concert you go to in w...

( Image source ) The greatest chess players think many moves ahead.  Rather than focusing on the current move, they (likely intuitively) ...