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Everyone knows, in a general way, that thinking is hard work. Our brains can only do so much of this work in a day before they get groggy an...

Big doings in Libya, where Gaddafi's regime is teetering : By late Sunday, rebel fighters had converged on the capital from four direc...

"Wood Pile" by J.C.M. Hayward, 1912. From an exhibit of photographs of Canada's industrial landscape. That is one seriously b...

In Richmond, yesterday, princess for a day. Ben and his cousin Zoey being a bit rowdy. And a "reenactment," of what I am not...

Poblanos, jalapenos, cherry bombs. Today.

Hundreds of people slipped out of Tripoli overnight and fled to rebel lines, and the rebels are saying this is another sign that the capita...

Found in London. It looks like the garments acrobats are wearing in Roman art, but with the Romans you can never tell who might have been we...

As I have said a few times on this blog, my sense is that the real cause of the recent financial crisis was too much money. There was so mu...

This is from Edward Rice's biography of Richard Francis Burton, describing the time when Burton was British consul in Damascus, Syria. T...

I was up in Sharpsburg, Maryland for a project kickoff meeting, and spend some time wandering the Antietam Battlefield. This is one of my fa...

The latest from the deep minds in the Pentagon basement: In what is perhaps the ultimate startup opportunity, Darpa , the Defense Advanc...

Penn Jillette : What makes me libertarian is what makes me an atheist -- I don't know. If I don't know, I don't believe. I don...

When I first went to Maine I was expecting the wonderful scenery, but I was completely unprepared for the flowers. In the cool, rainy weathe...

My daughter Mary and I stopped by Bates and Colby Colleges on our way home from Maine today. That's Mary in front of the very impressive...

Then maybe this is the job for you: Nemesis required. 6-month project with possibilty to extend I've been trying to think of ways ...

This morning before I started the trip home we took a little walk to Hunters Beach, near the southern tip of Mount Desert Island. It is a de...

Six months into the Civil War, Libyan rebels finally seem to have a military strategy, and to be making some progress with it. Al Jazeera : ...

Some very conservative, quasi-literalist Christians are questioning the Biblical account of creation, based on the evidence of our genes: ...

As I have mentioned, Rick Perry's mouth often gets ahead of his brain, and it is probably silly to think that every crazy thing he has s...

This morning we took the hike up Beech Mountain. My favorite part of this hike is the valley on the far side of the mountain, with its spect...

Once upon a time (1950) the future man got to have both a personal helicopter and a housewife.

This new Spanish concert hall has a rather striking form, but I wish it were someplace else. In this location it reminds me of the games I p...

The standard account of Japan's surrender in August, 1945 is that they did so because of the atomic bomb. Historian Tsuyoshi Hasegawa di...

I took a hike up Mount Champlain this morning. We started early, which I think is crucial here at crowded Acadia. That's the Bowl above...

Physicist David Deutsch has written a book, The Beginning of Infinity , which I think I will read when it appears in the library, and meanwh...

The view from the porch of my sister's house in Northeast Harbor. We went kayaking today, out to Seal Rock, where we saw so many seals I...