The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Justin Wolfers likes the fact that Australia has compulsory voting. I share Tom Friedman's view that the divisive nature of U.S. democ...

Via jwz  comes this story of a crazily effective birth control method for men : The procedure called RISUG in India (reversible inhibition o...

-In favor of my revised definition of why LA seems spread out , comes this:  the 50 densest cities in America : . Clocking in at number 1: T...

The second effect of overconfidence on the sports field is that people over-invest in the sport. In other words, when you think you have h...

Statisticians rarely make good members of sports teams. I found this out the hard way when I used to be on a frisbee team. Most people run...

Apparently the War on Drugs has ended! I know this because I read as much from Gil Kerlikowske, director of the Obama administration's ...

- Steve Sailer catches the New York Times with their preconceptions being hilariously disproved. A shooter had being going around in France...

In New York, Mayor Bloomberg has stood behind a policy to refuse private food donations to the homeless , on the basis that they might not m...

I've previously written about how I wouldn't have any desire to organise a massive wedding celebration that lasts many days . These ...

If you ever want an example of just how fickle people's preferences really are, look no further than their choice of holiday destination...

I was going to write about this piece at the New York Times  where this guy called Greg Smith writes about how he's leaving Goldman Sach...

"In death, Alexander of Macedon's end differed no whit from his stable-boy's. Either both were received into the same generativ...

Via Drudge comes a story of our time , of Scott O’Neil,   a cop in Mount Sterling, Ohio dealing with an arrest of a 9 year old boy for skipp...

Every now and again, I find myself rather impressed at just how adaptable the human body is. A great example of this is jet lag. This is a...

Via Jason Kottke , apparently one of Stefani Germanotta's co-workers shot a bunch of photos of her in 2005 in her apartment. Not long af...

One of the things I find unfortunate among American society is the inherent suspicion of unstructured recreation time. There seems to be a l...

Do you want the bad news, or the bad news? The bad news is that the TSA is still insisting on the right to   look at electronic pictures o...

In Australia, the Labor Government and Greens have been unhappy with the press coverage they've been receiving in various newspapers, ma...

The whole furore (mercifully dying down now) over Whitney Houston’s death gave me cause to reflect on the odd way that the average person of...

Conservative/Libertarian blogger Andrew Breitbart has died, unexpectedly but of natural causes, at age 43. Many disagreed with his politic...

Dell computers have some smart cookies working out their pricing policies. They've (correctly) estimated that a very large proportion of...

The worst mistakes are the ones you don't realise you're making. The most poignant mistakes are the ones that you don't realise ...

You have to be both a chemist and skeptic of government policy (which I know applies to at least GS, and possibly others) to enjoy this one ...

The Economist has an interesting article about how a researcher is set to make a hamburger patty out of artificially grown meat - that is, ...

Actually, this isn't quite right. It's not that LA is spread out, per se. Instead, it's that the good bits of LA are not geogr...

From Steve Sailer : JUST three decades ago, Thurgood Marshall was only months away from appointment to the Supreme Court when he suffered a...

Australia's former Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, was booted out as PM during his first term by Julia Gillard. Now that she got elected (by...

Apparently if you leave your fancy Tesla Roadster unplugged long enough that the battery drains to zero, it turns into an undrivable brick ...

"Just when you think you've got it all worked out, That's probably when they'll put you in the ground." From the exce...

-Since it has been established by rigorous analysis that McDonalds restaurants tend to be the most profitable places at airports, it seems ...

No, that is is neither a typo, nor sarcasm. From the great  Frédéric Bastiat : When James B. gives a hundred pence to a Government officer...