Weird in Wasilla

I'm not sure what's weirder–Sarah Palin's insanely strange resignation speech, or that, until the zoom-out, it looks as if Palin's speech is being witnessed by UFOs. Near as I can tell from that bramble of words, she resigned because of one or...

Senator Smalley

What a long, strange trip it's been. But Senator Franken ought to add some drama to the proceedings once he gets his dander up–he's very good at calling the right wing on their methodology. I just hope he never wears the Smalley sweater into the...

The politics of scientists

A Pew survey has come up with the following very interesting numbers:The percentage of scientists who consider themselves Republican: 6("More than half of the scientists surveyed (55%) say they are Democrats, compared with 35% of the public.") The percentage...

Why you're brilliant (or, possibly, not)

Those goldanged scientists have discovered some very interesting things of late about heredity and the brain. Turns out it's far more complicated than people used to think, with genes being expressed or not according to which of the parents contributed what and...