Who knew you weren't supposed to do that?

"Abstinence only" is harmful bullshit, and these young ladies deserve kudos for their chutzpah in supporting safe sex education.

Huckwit.

This combines 2 words that go together quite naturally. Example:

Oh Mike, that's such bollocks. You ARE a huckwit!

Greg Bishop, author of Project Beta (a book on the Bennewitz disinformation case) puts forth his take on some of the common arguments against UFOs.

Gorgeous image from the Wide Area Camera.

See http://spaceweather.com/ for the complete scoop.

As the parent of s small boy, I read this with great interest.

Steven Novella on real and pseudo problems in understanding ourselves.

Just getting started on this. I'm still uncertain if I want to write reviews of music, but apparently I do these days. This will mostly be of the ilk: "I have this CD and I like it mucho." Outside of books, I really have no idea how to review stuff.