The Pleistocene Giant

I felt like a monster reincarnation of Horatio Algier … a Man on the Move, and just sick enough to be totally confident. Hunter S. Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

(This post is very…

Antidepressant drugs have been getting a bad rap in the media. I’ll just give 3 examples:

• On the Today show, prominent medical expert Tom Cruise told us Brooke Shields shouldn’t have taken…

A tough new law cracking down on illegal immigrants and those who hire or “harbor” them has created a severe shortage of agricultural labor in Georgia right at harvest time.

The head of a…

Fyodor Dostoyevsky in 1879

I’m a little over halfway through Notes from the Underground right now. It’s a book I’ve started reading a number of times without ever getting past…

About half of all amateur research and investigation groups (ARIGs – those self-forming groups that do ghost hunting, Bigfoot searches, cataloging of UFO sightings, and other paranormalia) on the…

Skeptical pioneer Isaac Asimov (a founder of CSICOP, now called CSI) produced such a staggering library of books (over 500!) that his multiple autobiographies were merely punctuation. I…

Robin Hanson thinks sexsomniacs (people who have sex in a sleepwalking state) should be punished just like regular rapists when they (unknowingly) begin to have sex with someone who does not…

Monday’s decision in Kentucky v. King is an interesting example of how the Supreme Court translates constitutional principles into rules.

The issue in King was the test for identifying…

This photo was taken recently by Sergey Ponomarev in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan:

The line on the wall is the high water mark from the March 11 tsunami and the time on the clock…

That’s right – I can fly, just like Superman (although not as fast – let’s be realistic). I can take off from a standing start and simply defy gravity by lifting off into the air. I can then soar…