A Commonplace Book

Let's give three cheers for NASA, our robots are on Mars Because we are American they look like shiny cars They're brave and unc...

From Dr. Alan Williams, author of The Knight and the Blast Furnace

The controversial Johns Hopkins study recently published in the Lancet follows up on a 2004 study by many of the same authors. The 2004 stud...

So says a recent Johns Hopkins study published in the Lancet . Is it true? That's a huge number: somewhat more, as a share of population...

In the 1954 film Sabrina , Humphrey Bogart and William Holden portray two brothers from a wealthy family. One is a nose-to-the-grindstone bu...

There's a lot that a purist could complain about in this movie, but I still like it. It has a bad case of historical clichés #4 (Real M...

So, what's every pirate's dream, me mateys? Kiera nightly. Aarr arrr arrr. To be fair to them Islamic protesters, Manuel II was a b...

CONSTANTINOPLE, September 18, 1391. Ritters News Service. Muslims around the world continued to demand a full apology after a recent stateme...

....asks Michael Berube in a New York Times article . After all, he argues, students should expect to feel uncomfortable about their beliefs...

Yesterday I watched a Mythbusters Mega Movie Myths special episode. Mythbusters looks at those questions you've always wondered about. C...