How it transpired is something that a LOT of people have thought I'm making up.  But it really happened. I was on my first day of substi...

I'm still  choosing to be coy about where fate landed me after I left North Carolina almost four years ago.  Even so, I still keep an ey...

Work with me here.  It's way too late at night, I can't sleep and this is the kind of thing I think about at this hour. Here's...

"Sir please return to your room.   PLEASE sir it's dangerous!"  A fleck of dark red was on her cheek and plainly she was angu...

Very sad news today about John Forbes Nash, Jr. and his wife Alicia , who perished in an automobile accident last night in New Jersey. ...

"The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of 'Writer's Block'" is the title of one Dennis Upper's article, publis...

Isn't this how Khan Noonien Singh came about ? "Superior ability breeds superior ambition."

Dr. Tyson's badass jazz-hands Astrophysicist, bestselling author, science education advocate, "some guy from a Fox show" ...

Look!  A wild George Lucas sighting! " Nuclear Waste: Fission Products & Transuranics from Thorium & Uranium" is sincer...

This is easily the technology that I'm keenly following more than any other right now.  And for plenty of good reasons... 3D printing ...

The tornado which touched down in El Reno, Oklahoma this past Friday is now in the books as the biggest ever documented .  At its maximum, t...

"Liquid breathing" from The Abyss . Do not try this at home. Remember in James Cameron's movie The Abyss , where Ed Harri...

Because I don't want to go to bed with two consecutive posts pertaining to Star Wars staring me in the face (no matter how good, or how ...

Nearly sixty years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick figured out what DNA - that mega-long molecule containing the blueprints of organic l...

That's not the most weird headline I've ever made for a blog post, but I must say: that it's certainly among the most interesti...

Hey guys: wanna live longer? Lose the family jewels. (I tried to find an accompanying image for this, but the only ones readily available pe...

My mind is reeling from thinking about the applications possible with this... A sharp-thinking dude named Ramesh Raskar and his team of tec...

This video turned up on my YouTube front page this afternoon. Why, I've no idea whatsoever, apart from wondering if Google/YouTube is ...

The largest ejection of charged particles from the Sun since 2005 is currently speeding toward Earth at 5 million miles per hour . It's...

Angela Zhang (left) is probably like the vast majority of other teenagers in most respects. But how many other teens out there are also de...