Remember Global Warming Superheroes? A site where I---cough, cough---made villain of the day? While glancing through my logs, I was led to Timberati: Reasonably green thoughts. The folks there were…

Who said Finns don't have a sense of humor? One of Finland's very own has produced the second biggest joke of the year (the first obviously being our president and…

Yes, I would. And don't call me Shirley. David Zucker, the guy who brought us Airplane! and Naked Gun, will be back on October 3rd with An American Carol. Stephen…

Which is one step below "honourable mention", which itself is just under the actual winner. Or, in other words, we lost. Several months ago Roger Kimball instituted a contest: Name…

For those readers in the States and Canada (and elsewhere?) who get the History channel, tomorrow, Tuesday 23 December, is The Big Day. I'll be on the show Weird US…

He is a man of good birth and excellent education, endowed by nature with a phenomenal mathematical faculty. At the age of twenty-one he wrote A Treatise on the Binomial…