Some people feel like they were born in the wrong century and should have been born when there were cowboys or knights or whatever.   Paul Krugman simply thinks he was born in the wrong decade…

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his organization are famously liberal with the secrets of the U.S. military but he is not so forthcoming about his own private affairs. Assange walked out of a…

I get unsolicited mail: ProEvo: Pro Evolution - Guideline for an Age of Joy Being on a variety of evolution vs creationism mailing lists, I wasn't initially surprised to receive an apparently…

The Museum of UnNatural History has a page about the Kraken, of course, a pleasant romp through the history of the mythological creature, but unfortunately it does its part to perpetrate a…

AMSTERDAM, October 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the international payment specialist, today published 'Voice of the Customer' research which shows the ability to make inter-bank payments…

PORTO, Portugal, October 24, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- Cardmobili the leading provider of mobile loyalty and member services, makes a debut in the Asia-Pacific region covering the full spectrum of mobile…

You think Batman's pretty cool, don't you?  Outside of America, they make Batman even cooler because he guns down bad guys and has sex with the ladies he rescues.  Other countries have been…

Wait. Which one? Three, yes three, separate books with kraken in the title came out this year: China Mieville's Kraken, fiction of the New Weird literary movement. I understand it does legitimately…

Week number one of my course on Subnuclear Gauge Physics is over. I think that in the first five hours of lesson I have given to my students a reasonable picture of the early experimental attempts…

Yesterday, I posted Game Theory's El Farol Bar problem, with a couple questions. (If you haven't read it yet, go back—the answer's no good without the puzzle.) And the truth is there's no answer, or…