Tangential Science: It isn't necessarily science, but it's still funny. 1. Want a business card made out of meat and lasers? You're in luck! Meat Cards is having a contest to win one. All you have to…

LOS ANGELES, California, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Platinum Equity today announced it has completed the acquisition of The Geesink Norba Group from Oshkosh Corporation (NYSE:OSK). The company, which…

Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Proverbs of Hell #66

Q. Who said this? "I have only two passions - space exploration and hip-hop." A. Buzz Aldrin, space exploration pioneer, on Apollo 11, second person to walk on the moon, 79-year-old white dude. I…

The world doesn't always make sense. Witness Mike's blog post on some convoluted language in a news story. I understand that people make mistakes - I do all the time. My personal philosophy is…

By honest I don't mean that you only tell what's true. But you make clear the entire situation. You make clear all the information that is required for somebody else who is intelligent to make up…

The Evocative Power Of LanguageMost philosophical studies of how language functions have focused on semantics - how language conveys meaning.  In ordinary speech, language is not confined to the…

When you turn the resources of modern science to the problem of killing people, you realize how vulnerable they really are. - Physicist I.I. Rabi, quoted in Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic…

All men are liable to error; and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it. - Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding Book IV, Ch. 20, sec. 17

The Bookworm And The Encyclopedias - The Solution Last Monday I posed a simple math puzzle: A set of 10 encyclopedias is sitting on a bookshelf in left-to-right numerical order. Each single volume…