Flares into Darkness

Click any image to enlarge Eric Ravilious (1903 – 1942) was a...

Detail of a basilica in  Malaga, Spain  Well, I'm back from my vacation. My plan to bag a whale, get it stuffed, and hang it above my m...

Click any image to enlarge Thomas Benjamin Kennington (1856-1...

Click any image to enlarge Sir Muirhead Bone was a 20th century Scottish etcher and watercolorist. He primarily focused on architectural su...

Click any image to enlarge Walter Crane is 19th century illustrator who is most remembered today for his illustrations of nursery rhymes an...

First, i apologize for being away for so long without giving any word of my whereabouts. I had visitors, but thought I could at least do l...

Why the recession is lasting so long . Communicating through touch . Revolution in China? Fairness is hard-wired into the brain. ...

Does Obama scare al-Qaida ? Switching to the WSJ? Nearly as hard as diamond, slipperier than teflon . Russian paranoia runs rampant. Does ...

Russia responds to Obama's election with missiles. Antitrust kills the Google + Yahoo deal . The 10 genetic secrets of a cancer reveal...

Progress in plasma propulsion . Shame cubed . Microsoft reveals Azure . Yet another Islamic woman stoned . Transsexual genes . Turns out tha...

Is it a government-induced problem ? Is it time for a time-out ? The end of Capitalism ? The end of free trade ? The end of the Universe ? I...

What Ayers believes . The fungus that eats pollutants . Two questions that mattered. The colors of the brainbow . $900b gone today. Dow in ...

Wall Street is kaput . Mickey Mouse must die. Enough with the economic pessimism nonsense . A breast cancer vaccine that works? Business b...

The new authoritarian nationalists on the march . Pyramids of the future . Rat-brained robots. Is college a waste of time and money? Intro...

We weren't duped , but who cares anymore? Female and male memory mechanisms are genetically different . Gordon Brown and the Chinese Mat...

Is the war over ? Struck by lightning, she lives to tell the tale (and show you the video). Is mocking now a thing of the past? When you w...

Rebuilding from the ground up . Phone home with neutrinos , not photons. "The single most pernicious threat to liberty today is humani...

The taint of '68 . Electricity misconceptions . When gangs rule . What's privacy worth when you can prosecute dog poop . Your side, ...

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The British police state destroys privacy but can't catch crooks . Too addled for prime time? The sand you never knew . 4 principles of...