Economic stimulus = just pouring concrete?
Obama decides that current and new grant applications at the National Institutes of Health are an effective economic stimulus. People get jobs. Inventions get invented. What's not to like? More »
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Happy tax day: Meet bureaucracy’s roots!
Taxes done? Two conquest inscriptions on Building J, from about 100 BC. At the bottom, upside-down heads, with closed eyes, signify conquest. Given the current hostility to government, you could be...
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Peopling the Americas — New evidence
Closing the deal: More doubt that Clovis came first For decades, one name has dominated discussion of the ancient New World: Clovis. Tools representing the characteristic Clovis technology, first found...
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The importance of being Einstein
Gravity is a drag… and Einstein’s right again! ENLARGE Photo: Albert-Einstein-Archiv, Jerusalem, Lucien Chavan Albert, Einstein was a patent clerk in 1905, the year he published his first paper on...
View ArticleBookin’ science: Best of the batch.
If (gasp!) the subject is too big for a Whyfile, hit the books. Here, we review four great science books, on evolution, environment, fighting nature, and discovering motherly love.
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Calendars: A fix needed?
Calendar proposal makes sense Ever wonder why the calendar requires us to retool a schedule every year? Ever question why your birthday will fall on a different day of the week next year? Do you grit...
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Patent wars!
Parrying patents! Microsoft’s April 9 deal to spend $1.3 million apiece on 800 patents from AOL was another skirmish in the patent wars that have engaged the technosphere. Just last summer, we watched...
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Making spears
The oldest spears Spears, during the stone age, were primo tools for dealing with the pangs of hunger or the perils of an attacking lion. And so both Homo sapiens and our Neanderthal relatives invented...
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Ebola’s end: History’s lessons
Ebola’s end: History’s lessons ENLARGE Liberian riot policemen enforce a quarantine on the West Point slum in Monrovia on Aug. 20, 2014.Photo: The World Post Ebola continues to ravage nations in West...
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Trampling culture, destroying history
Trampling culture, destroying history The tomb of the prophet Jonah (Jonas), revered in Judaism, Christianity and Islam, exploded by ISIS in July, 2014. Video: News of Iraq Like a gang of vandals...
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