Hamlet, the lead character in one Shakespeare's best plays, was a Danish prince - but he may actually have been Irish, according to a piece in the Review of English Studies.   Though this be…

NEW YORK, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The following is a message by Michelle Bachelet, Executive Director, UN Women: A hundred years ago today, women across the world took an historic step on the…

CHICAGO, March 7, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- element14 (http://www.element-14.com/community/index.jspa), a collaborative social community and electronics store for design engineers and electronics…

Some people accept that the world's climate systems are changing, but try to argue that humans are too puny to be any part of the cause. The reason for putting forward such an argument in the face of…

In New York City, you can easily date a different person within a mile of your home for the rest of your life and never come close to duplicating - and that may be why people in New York City have…

One time on a dreary (particularly dreary- 300 of them a year are rather so) Seattle afternoon I was approached by a hobo(1) so I gave him some money and asked him, since he clearly had no place…

In newspaper cartoon serials 100 years ago and in real life for millenia, babies have said "goo goo" and "gaga" - but one recently famous pop music star, who lifted her moniker from Queen's "Radio…

The theme of the latest Accretionary Wedge (a carnival of geoblogs) is “Throw me your ‘favorite geologic picture’ mister”, so here is mine: Despite my relatively short career as a geologist, it was a…

I just became aware of a letter that is being sent to a couple of US Senators by a large and illustrious collection of scientists, and I decided to put my signature below it. The letter is clear and…

Squid sex is both discreet and discrete. Discreet, because usually the sexual organs remain hidden. The only visible activity looks more like a handshake than like intercourse, as the male uses one…