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  Absolutely the coolest science of the day.  From the BBC : Now scientists have worked out the secret technique that penguins ...

The Republican party in Minnesota has gone through a variety of crises recently, including a sex scandal and some financial misadventures, b...

Would you eat the dark one?  Can you identify it?  Ponder for a moment, then see the answer below the fold...

Here's the "meat" of an abstract of a paper in the April 2008 issue of the Annals of Diagnostic Pathology : The purpose of...

I had several Gilbert toys as a child, but somehow missed out on this one.  I never had the pleasure of playing with molten lead. Via M...

Rivers forming tree-like figures on the desert of Baja California, Mexico. Photo and caption by Adriana Franco . From a photo gallery a...

Clothes with the same size label have become steadily larger over time. Measurements vary a bit by brand, but research by The Economist ...

A nice photo of the former Norma Jean Mortensen Baker after her marriage to James Dougherty.  At the time this photo was taken at Capistr...

From a story at Blogslot , reporting on the American Copy Editors convention in New Orleans: Now it's OK in AP style to use the word ...

From a presentation given at the 16th National Congress of the American Copy Editors Society: In some ways, Althoff said, working at Hust...

From a story in The Guardian : Almost 3,000 years ago, the ruler of Sheba, which spanned modern-day Ethiopia and Yemen, arrived in Jer...

YouTube link .  There appears to be no argument re the existence of the abnormalities - but extensive disagreement re the cause(s). Ne...

... this scenario may ring a bell.  From the weekly collection at The New Yorker .

From an open letter written by sixth-graders at Seward Montessori School in Minneapolis: In the Minneapolis public schools, we are suppos...

"Skagit Valley Tulip Festival near La Conner, Washington."  One of the Pictures of the day at The Telegraph (credit: AP Photo/...