My Fellow Post-Protozoans

Some cool news: Amateurs collaborate on a grand scale make a Google Earth extension so anyone can look at the details of North Korea. Now you too can peer at the glories of Kim Jong-Il's summer home.Some bad news: The methods we've used to search for life (or...

A mysterious creature in Vermont

A lake monster in New England? Burlington's Eric Olsen captured some interesting footage of something in Lake Champlain. Here's a stabilized version of the footage–Olsen got tired of all the attention and seems to have disallowed embedding of his video....

Another glimpse into how torture happened

How come the New York Times read emails full of damning information about the genesis of the infamous torture memos and came up with a story mainly saying that even the memo's detractors agreed that torture was legal? Freaking liberal media.It bears noting as well...

Polite conversation

It is been deemed, by certain omnipresent naysayers, a bad thing to repeatedly focus on torture. And of course it is bad, in that it means they have to embrace one of the nadirs of human behavior repeatedly and openly in order to defend the indefensible. So it seemed...