You aren't really somebody unless you have an aircraft carrier named after you and 40th US president Ronald Reagan has just that.   Now he will have a Miss California on board too; in this…

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns…

I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval…

For every complex problem, there is a simple, easy to understand, incorrect answer. - Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, quoted in Robert Pennock, Tower of Babel, p. 367

The question of what the major current problems of Biology are cannot be answered, for I do not know of a single biological discipline that does not have major unsolved problems... still, the most…

That first early morning cup is wearing off; it's time for more coffee zen and a dose of science browsing to bring the day back into equilibrium: Who knew bugs could be beautiful? Bug Safari is one…

Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person's mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well.- Thomas Pynchon, Slow Learner, p. 15

"I seldom enjoy competition in real life. I find it fun only when I am up against somebody who takes things more seriously than I do." QDS

It is true that if we look at a glass of wine closely enough we see the entire universe. There are the things of physics: the twisting liquid which evaporates depending on the wind and weather, the…

There are very few lovers of truth, for truth's sake, even amongst those who persuade themselves that they are so. How a man may know whether he be so in earnest, is worth inquiry: and I think there…