Aristotle got the internet the other day, as well as the whole ancient world. The classical Greeks immediately took advantage of this...

The colors of the rainbow do not begin to reflect all of the infinite hues of reflected light. However, the myriad colors of the world...

A few lines from Plato's lost dialog: Hypo-Critias Grecian Guy: Is it true Socrates, that the nature of the good is knowledge, and that...

We are living in a world where not only nature, but human nature is being highly inconsiderate. And we are as troubled as we are enticed...

Our cultural gods proclaim, as usual, that sin is everywhere, but it’s not so much in the obvious places, but in the virtual ones....

I don’t care. Not interested. No opinion. Don’t want to talk about it. And I think nearly all folks feel the same way. Private sexual...

Dr. Tooby Dawkins Pinker, Distinguished Professor of Evolutionary Psychology and Master of Great Hair, answers your self help questions....

Presenting the Hal 9000, a super intelligent bun warmer, thermostat, beserk killing machine, and your best friend! Dave: Well Hal, tell...

If you wait long enough, things just blow over, or just get blown up, and you can settle back to a life of leisure where you can do all...

Dear Klarg. My husband continually bites my head off when I don't have dinner ready for him when he arrives from work. How can I persuade...

The universe is a pretty complex thing, and when you throw in people, it becomes downright inscrutable. Since people are the only...

Communications, whether genetic or through common speech, can have its empty spots when we are literally without words, but nature, and...

We get jealous easily, and a simple trend line can set us off in the worst way. Take income inequality for example. It seems that the top...

There was trouble with our goods, because there were no goods. But the American people were prepared for it, and scarcely complained....

Our pleasures don’t just happen, they need calibration. Context is important, and novel and positive expectation is the seasoning that...

The census bureau has made much of the decline of Caucasian Americans as a percentage of the American population, a literally shady...

Suppose when cloning becomes the norm, an enterprising biologist with an eye to entertainment will clone three icons of Hollywood, Cary...

Congrats! Your dead! Let’s say the government, in its usual ineffable wisdom, mandates that everybody has to buy a Powerball ticket, with...

Barbarians at the check out gate It’s easy for us to conceive of the fall of empires. Born in hubris, and often ending because of it,...

As history tells the tale, the old regime fell quickly, and before you knew it there was a new ruler and a renewal of the horrible status...

We all know the fate of squeaky wheels; they get the grease. But other wheels, less audible but with conditions far more dire, are left...