The Adventures of Shylock Holmes

Some days the world is tragic in ways that don't leave you with much left to say. Via Athenios comes this story from Greece : An in...

It is almost an article of faith among certain parts of the left that they are the party of science. The right is full of knuckle-dragging, ...

-Similar to when I went bungee jumping, the first sensation of jumping and free-falling was somewhat overwhelming, in the sense that my brai...

So much has been said speculating about the missing Malaysia Airlines flight that may or may not have crashed, or been hijacked, or been del...

Dating web sites are fascinating places to go to see evidence of the lack of introspection of most people, particularly most young people. A...

Social customs are strange things. Some rules are totally arbitrary (fork on the left, knife on the right), but usually these end up being c...

Look at these preening poseurs , parading their ostentatious compassion like a badge of their moral purity: Thousands of people have held ...

From the comments to the previous post : How about this argument? I think you're just pushing the social construct down (up?) a leve...

A certain class of trendy lefty and soft social science academic is fond of asserting loudly that 'race doesn't exist', or '...

So Pete Seeger died last week. I meant to write about this earlier, but didn't. I always loved Pete's music. Granted, I'm sure...

Check out this email from genetic testing company 23andme for the most upbeat corporate email I've received recently. Scroll through t...

It seems to me to be a stark reality about human nature that very few (if any) people's lives are actually 'living the dream' wh...

' Random Street View '. All these places I've never been and never will go. Also, it reminds you how despite the fact that if yo...

Have you noticed that when sitting at a dinner table, conversations have centres of gravity? Not as in metaphorical centres of gravity about...

Oh you dear neglected weblog, I have been most remiss in feeding you of late. As the blog equivalent of a tasty but not very nutritious ch...

Here’s an idea for some enterprising engineer (most likely at Google or somewhere else with access to good traffic data) that I’m almost ce...

When I was in Toronto about a month ago, a friend of mine who lives there told me how there's some suggestion that the Buffalo Bills NFL...

Baaaaa. Why do you do the things you do? If you're ever in some trendy cocktail lounge or bar, chances are you'll see some...

From James Mickens, dubbed ' the funniest man in Microsoft Research ', which you might think is a backhanded compliment, but is actu...

I'm back in Oz, hence the drop in recent postings. With punctuality like this in notifying my loyal readers, apparently I shouldn't ...

I've wondered a few times  on these pages about the psychology of married people who begin affairs. As I wrote at the time : As the l...

1. The decision itself can be found here . Have you read it, even if only briefly? Did it occur to you to even search for it? Have you read ...

What happens when the whitest band in history covers the second whitest band in history? A whole metric buttload of awesome, that’s what. ...

AL sent me a link to this story about how Jessica Kerr, lately a model for Victoria’s secret, was apparently punted from said job after sa...

I've come to the conclusion that a large amount of existence of small local bands can be explained by option value. The bands thems...

From Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines’ ‘I feel so lucky You wanna hug me, What rhymes with “hug me”?’ Really? You’re rhyming ‘hug me’ wi...

Not many people really understand the idea of reversion to the mean in the context of genetics. If it’s discussed at all, it’s usually in te...