A Mind in a Skid

Today my father, author of this blog, passed away from complications related to lung cancer. It was only about 1 ½ years ago I set up this b...

I've been suffering from insomnia of late, but I'm fighting back not with pills - no big luna moths latching onto my back - but with...

The other day I discovered (or rediscovered - how could I have missed such a simple visual illusion?) that I have a three hands. Here's ...

Somewhere back in the golden days shortly before the boom dropped on the economy, my daughter was convinced she should buy a house. She was ...

Newsweek's March 2 cover was dire indeed: A person whose head was encased in ice. The headline shouted: "Brain Freeze." The su...

Both time I heard a gun advocate say on the news that we'd be better off if every law-abiding citizen carried a concealed weapon, I thou...

Natural selection may be a dirty word for certain evolution deniers, but artificial selection - that is, the domestication and designing of ...