Not only has Carl Sagan already done all of the most amazing things that it is possible to do, but he has also been re-mixed: ...

I've been thinking a lot recently about time scales, how quickly and/or slowly things happen, and how we humans perceive that. Look at...

Okay, this might get weird, but here goes. The other night I was biking to a friend's house, wearing full rain-gear. Even with all...

This is what the volcano Krakatoa looked like before it exploded in August 1883: This is what it looks like now, the three islands fo...

The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries. The third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents. By the fifth day, we we...

Kurt Vonnegut, probably my favorite author, wrote this: "To all my friends and relatives in Alcoholics Anonymous," I began, ...

My girlfriend threw a tie-dye party recently, which by all accounts was a much larger success than the tie-dye party I threw a year or two ...