The bombing of the Askariya Shrine in Samarra effectively escalates the Iraqi Civil War from low-level insurgency to open conflict. It was a nice building as well. The golden dome on one shrine was...

I saw someone write this, apparently convinced of their own wisdom: People who live in the Arctic evolved to eat loads of fish and red meat, very few grains and produce. Human cultures capable...

A 1,500-member Iraqi police force with close ties to Shiite militia groups has emerged as a focus of investigations into suspected death squads working within the country’s Interior Ministry … “Who knows who they...

A rare, severe birth defect is on the rise in an inbred polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border … Intermarriage among close relatives is producing children who have two copies of a recessive gene...

The results of this mega-experiment indicate that [Aspartame/Nutrasweet] is a multipotential carcinogenic agent, even at a daily dose of 20 mg/kg [bodyweight], much less than the current acceptable daily intake … the time span...

Ah poor Harrison Ford, how far have you fallen from Solo and Jones… 1997, Air Force One. “Get off my PLANE!” 2006, Firewall. “Get off my SERVER!”

One thing that has always bothered me about the extreme replacement hypothesis of the “Out of Africa” essentialists is that the idea that thousands of humans (or pre-humans) emerging from their African homes would...

I finally discovered why it is that as I grow older I have increasingly hairy ears: the locus for the hair earlobe gene is carried only on the Y portion of the 23rd chromosome....

More Bush-Bono lovefest here.

Why is there a greater tendency for Europeans to wear more revealing “Speedos” while USians tend to wear less revealing swimming trunks? As with many aggressively expansionist cultures throughout history, the US is permeated...