Scientists … have been examining the latest preserved prehistoric bodies to emerge from Ireland’s peat bogs — the first to be found in Europe for 20 years. One of the bodies … had raised...

Tragedy visited Qana again Sunday, a once-picturesque village of figs, grapevines and olive trees along rolling, rocky hills where Lebanese believe Jesus Christ turned water into wine for a wedding. It was here on...

Mountain glaciers … are in retreat around the Earth, taking with them vast stores of water that grow crops, generate electricity and sustain cities and rural areas … The steady supply of water [farmers]...

Someone suggested the following as a possible sequel for that Snakes movie: A Sack Of Weasels On An Evil Clown Riding A Unicycle On Top Of A Combine Harvester Through A Nunnery It’s no...

I was thinking about the current media fad for “Emo” when I read this (subsequently censored and deleted): people are tired of pretentious assholes telling them what to think and want to go back...

Four years and two years ago I noted that Iran seemed to have successfully duped the US into removing both of its main regional adversaries, the Taliban and Saddam Hussein, and in the process...

A detailed survey of 481 cotton growers in China found that, although they did use fewer pesticides in the first few years of adopting GM plants, after seven years they had to use just...

David Hasselhoff’s superstar status as a singer in Europe hasn’t carried over to America but he says “if it happens, it happens.” “I’m a big punching bag … I just kind of go with...

There is this movie coming out about snakes on a plane with Samuel Jackson. Nothing remarkable about that really, more summer escapism. What’s more remarkable is the concerted, relentless, and nauseatingly omnipresent viral marketing...

Nomunication, which means to discuss something over a couple of drinks, sounded hip in the early ’90s when the Japanese economic juggernaut appeared poised to take over the world, but now the word affects...