Borepatch

Why don't mummies take vacation?  They're afraid to unwind.

 In support of Borepatch, I went into the HTML that underlays the blog and set all the blogrolls to display 100 items before hiding anything...

These linemen are restoring power to Sanibel Island. Shock and awe.   Spotted by The Queen Of The World.

"Bigger than the Beatles" is a cliche in the music world.  Buck Owens wasn't bigger than the Fab Four, but he was first - he r...

 In Greek Mythology, Chiron was half man, half horse. He was also a doctor of medicine. You could say that he was the centaur for disease co...

There are a lot of blogs on the blogroll here that Google won't display.  Sure, it let's you add them to the blogroll but it only d...

I boiled a funny bone last week. It turned into a laughing stock. 

It routes around it.  Big Brother Google (you do love Big Brother, don't you?) cast Big Country into the Outer Darkness, yea with bell,...

John Morris had a long career writing music for Mel Brooks (he scored "Springtime for Hitler" in The Producers), but this is his m...

Nimrodmaroon emails to ask if I'd ever heard of Bad Liver.  I hadn't but holy cow, this is right up my ally.  They were a (fittingly...

E.M. Smith has a typically thoughtful post about what is happening in Europe right now : Do note that at present the EU & UK are having ...

I've written for years and years about how the Climate Temperature Models seem hopelessly broken . So just how broken are they?  This br...

Wind energy company fined $35M for killing hundreds of bald eagles : An American wind energy company has admitted to killing at least 150 ba...

Gemini and Apollo astronaut (and USAF General) James McDivitt dead at 93 . As usual, Dwight is your go-to guy for obits. 

 I went to the bookstore yesterday. There was a self-help book titled "How to Make 50% of Your Problems Disappear".  I bought two ...

All the science posting lately means we need a science themed Dad Joke. Why do you never hear good chemistry jokes anymore?  Because all th...

A Science-Based approach to weight loss! Click to embiggen or read it at Dilbert .  This is simply top shelf mockery.  

Loretta Lynn passed on a week ago.  The Choir Invisible's gain is our loss. She was a force of nature, both professionally and personall...

I ran across this photograph somewhere in the last couple of weeks: It was from the Fifth Solvay Conference in 1927.  IIRC, 16 of these gent...

I was going to post about this a couple of months ago, but the story is getting even more interesting.  The new James Webb Space Telescope i...