Catalytic Narrative

I feel pretty bad about tossing cold water at a friend who was excited to have stocked his new Euro-style apartment (OK, it's not "...

Now this is way too cool ! An article right in the New York Times about "otherwise respectable scientists" saying how the Higgs Bo...

Those two of you who read this will know by now that I enjoy making fun of anyone who's gearing up for some kind of "rapture"....

Want Peace? Give a Nuke the Nobel Now this is clearly insane, right? First of all, you can't give the Nobel prize to a thing, not to men...

Through all those years of separation, East and West, humanity never did manage to evolve a new species. We had at least as much separation ...

Yay! Finally, it's out there, the huckster come-on to end all come-ons, the billboard at the end of the universe, the signpost to eterni...

I must warn you in advance, gentle reader, that this is a roller-coaster read. I want to tag subjects normally not strung together in a sing...