Tonight I completed the last Harry Potter book. Rowling has created a world and set of characters that folks will still be reading about a c...

One of the problems with economics is that it assumes economies gravitate towards equilibrium. In this model, economies are all about moving...

An odd thing has happened on the way to the White House. For the first time since they've tracked these things, the Democratic president...

Chief Justice Roberts suffered what doctors are calling "a benign idiopathic seizure." Expert Bernard Benoit said that such a con...

There is a degree to which the most advanced have to advance in order to bring along the whole. If you've tried to push water in a batht...

Bush was listening to his regular morning briefing from General Petraeus . "Insurgents killed two Brazilian soldiers in the Anbar prov...

My buddy Bernard is a nervous wreck. He's afraid he could be implicated in the obesity epidemic of the last two decades. His concern has...

Nursing home cat can sense death? CHICAGO (Reuters) - When Oscar the Cat visits residents of the Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Cen...

A professor of astronomy mentioned to a hall full of students that the sun would likely die out in about 3 billion years. “How long before t...

From Wired Gannett to Crowdsource News Jeff Howe 11.03.06 12:00 PM The publisher of "America's newspaper" is turning to Amer...

Spying squirrels and terrorist badgers have descended on the Middle East. Iranian police have arrested 14 squirrels on charges of espionage ...

It seems to me that a person can make one of two mistakes regarding money and a career: choose a career simply because it pays well or choos...

We complain about congestion, but it's a fact that we're drawn to other people. This draw has sophistication to it. We don't jus...

I once tried positive thinking but I knew it wouldn't work.

You wouldn't think much of a doctor who dangled a $20 bill in front of a child with a fever and told him, "You can have this money ...

Progress is boring. Emotional upheaval may be dramatic, but it interferes with the stability needed for people to focus on inventions, novel...

Apparently, the job of a politician is to make the future sound sure. Of course, the promises made to assure the constituency are bound to d...

Bjork is the most intriguing artist in pop music since John Lennon. Art is important to the construction and deconstruction of social realit...

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Merriam-Webster is going to include ginormous (akin to gigantic and enormous or even bigger) in its new dictionary. Finally. I can express m...