Thursday, February 26, 2004

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Eagle I'd never seen a bald eagle in the wild before, though you can find them in Wisconsin. But yesterday as I waited for the bus at ...
Friday, February 20, 2004

Battling for Hearts and Minds

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Insofar as we allow the enemy to define the battleground, the advantage is his. Our enemy is the Qutb/Salafi/Wahhabi Muslims who believe us...
Wednesday, February 18, 2004

Women rating women

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I commented on this group's earlier report that women preferred rugged men's faces when fertile, and more "kindly" faces...
Friday, February 13, 2004

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Spheres on Mars Obviously the spheres are fallen shotgun pellets. "There's another probe, RYllx! Get it!" OK, seriously, th...
Friday, February 06, 2004

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Nail tearing I'm rather surprised nobody has studied fingernail structure before. Dr. Ennos calls it "ingenious," as the l...
Thursday, February 05, 2004

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I wonder what it was carrying Nigeria quashes air crash rumour The Nigerian authorities have called off the search for a plane alleged to ...

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Chasing away desireables So we'll be shipping back to Cuba the folks who rebuilt a 1959 V8 Buick into a boat. Unless they were on so...

Massachusetts Supreme Court

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I think Scrappleface has the kindest take on this usurpation. The scope of their arrogance is truly sweeping: they redefine law, languag...
Friday, January 30, 2004

Through Liberia

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by Lady Dorothy Mills When I went to the library to find Land of the Magic Soldiers another title jumped out at me from a frail volume: T...

Silicon Valley vs NASA

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Dennis Wingo writes in SpaceRef that in his judgment we can go to the moon with better and cheaper systems than before: calling the previ...
Monday, January 26, 2004

In the Land of Magic Soldiers

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by Daniel Bergner My mother recommended this to me. Bergner tells the stories of several people, white and black, who love Sierra Leone and...
Tuesday, January 20, 2004

Tinfoil

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Thanks to a battery check all the radio settings in my car are gone, so I tuned in a station I don't generally listen to. A woman who j...

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Some wonderful ideas India is sponsoring a foundation for innovations--the "small" inventions that don't get a lot of press...
Monday, January 19, 2004

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Safety kills Hubble? NASA claims that safety concerns mean no new Hubble missions . It sounds more like budget hardball: If you cut our ...
Saturday, January 17, 2004

Hidden Gospels

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How the Search for Jesus Lost Its Way by Philip Jenkins Has anybody not heard of the Gospel of Thomas? Or Q? Q is for Quelle, the hypotheti...
Friday, January 16, 2004

Signs of winning or losing

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In Winds of Change Katzman asks for possible indicators that the WOT is going well, or going badly. To clarify: When I refer to the War On...

For the Glory of God

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by Rodney Stark In this (second volume of a set) book Stark (who also wrote The Rise of Christianity ) sets forth the claim that it was lar...

Soul Survivor

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by Phillip Yancy How Thirteen Unlikely Mentors Helped My Faith Survive the Church "I have spent most of my life in recovery from the C...
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

The Rise of Christianity

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by Rodney Stark How the obscure, marginal Jesus movement became the dominant religious force in the Western world in a few centuries. OK, I...
Saturday, January 10, 2004

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Marching Band Effect On a related note (:-)), you've undoubtedly noticed that bands marching in a parade invariably sound ragged, or no...