Cats in Hats at the Algonquin, New York We can only imagine the hell which hath no fury like the cats who were dressed up like Raggedy...
The Thing About Autism What exactly constitutes autism and what causes it has been the subject of heated debate in the last few...
Watching Paint Dry Apparently trying to prove that scientists are as fascinating as World War II veterans taking some time off from...
Russian Fire Fetishism and Fire-Fighting Tanks As a 430,000-acre series of wildfires burns near Moscow, bathing the city in an acrid, toxic smog and contributing...
Teabaggers Add Cream to Wikileaks Scandal, Make it Mildly Gayer The front page of the New York Times today has a story about Pfc. Bradley Manning, the reputed source...
The Curious Fate of the Muffin Man Yesterday’s New York Times ran a story on the plight of former Bimbo executive Chris Botticella. Get your mind...
Mr. Twister, the Meter-Feeding Clown So the story goes this way. About fifteen years ago there’s this clown in Santa Cruz, okay? Okay, back...
Do You Need an Exorcism? Take the Quiz! Imagine my chagrin this morning when I saw perched ominously atop my usual stack of Gmails complaining about my...
Dot Matrix Dies of Cerebral Aneurysm If, like me, you were stupid enough to have watched TV in the late ’70s, you saw Shields and...
Engineers Turn Robot Arm Into F1 Racing Simulator There have been a number of Formula 1 racing simulators created, from desk-based articulated chairs (scary!) to Red Bull’s...