Americans have recently been questioning themselves deeply on subjects like imperialism, religion, taxation, and prohibition. All the while, oil is gushing, but in all the wrong places.  Perhaps it’s addictive, or something (don’t look at me, smarts the likes of a world leader are needed to figure these things out). At the same time of [...]

The most popular story on BBC News right now asks, “What Happened to Global Warming ?” It’s a great question.  The story explains that the last decade has been pretty chilly: For the last 11 years we have not observed any increase in global temperatures… And our climate models did not forecast it, even though [...]

It might have just started as a fun idea at Google HQ for a lazy Saturday, but the decision to run a masthead showing a UFO “abducting” one of the letters in Google has set-off heaps of speculation.  Will September 5th now be unversally proclaimed Unexplained Mystery day thanks to Google’s masthead? Internet folk are [...]

Do video games cater to basic male instincts ? Could staring at a creature far superior to you make you feel worse about yourself ? It seems odd for scientists to research “the obvious” but more often than not, that’s what’s on the plate: the area of the brain that was put to the test [...]