Not-yet-published pieces, stories, essays, rants, and random strangenesses

The Hindu god Shiva (who has nothing whatsoever to do with sitting shiva) is usually depicted as one of the members of the great Triad,...

An impoverished surfer has drawn up a new theory of the universe, seen by some as the Holy Grail of physics, which has received rave...

A couple of weeks ago, Adamus told me he had gotten a dog at the pound, a Lab mix named Dusty. He said I should definitely meet her....

Not to mention the question of which way it goes. . . . by Tim Folger, Discover Magazine No one keeps track of time better than Ferenc...

In an earlier post about a fascinating (and more than a little surreal) discussion about quantum physics in an online humor and gossip...

Ever since Alfred Watkins announced his discovery of a network of ancient alignments criss-crossing the British countryside, the history...

This morning, groggy and bleary-eyed, I stumbled out of bed and headed for the computer, as I do every morning (I am such a creature of...

You may have gathered by now that were I to start my college education all over again, I’d study quantum physics. Of all the hard...

In many countries, a sneeze that occurs after making a statement is often interpreted as a confirmation by God that the statement was...

I love the annual death of Daylight Savings Time (or, as I understand it is now to be called, Daylight Saving Time, without the s; or, as...