What causes arthritis A  drunk man who smelled like beer sat down on a subway next to a priest.  The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered  with red lipstick, a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out  of his torn coat pocket.  He opened his newspaper and began  reading.  After a few minutes [...]

Homo sapiens, the first truly free species, is about to decommission natural selection, the force that made us…. Soon we must look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.” Edward O. Wilson Consilience, The Unity of Knowledge // Tweet This Post Plurk This Post Buzz This Post Delicious Digg This Post Ping [...]

10 – You vigorously deny the existence of thousands of gods claimed by other religions, but feel outraged when someone denies the existence of yours. 9 – You feel insulted and “dehumanized” when scientists say that people evolved from other life forms, but you have no problem with the Biblical claim that we were created [...]

On the night of August 1, at a Whitehall, Ohio Walmart, Virginia Dodson could not remember why she was sitting alone in a car. Coming to grips with her enclosed environment, it dawned on her that she did not know how to unbuckle her seat belt either. Panic began to take hold. Her solution was [...]

On the 1st of January, 1998, Bjarne Stroustrup gave an interview to the IEEE’s ‘Computer’ magazine. Naturally, the editors thought he would be giving a retrospective view of seven years of object-oriented design, using the language he created. By the end of the interview, the interviewer got more than he had bargained for and, subsequently, [...]