The Mother of All Apes?

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Marta Palmero/Institut Català de Paleontologia Miquel Crusafont Another discovery, another possible rewrite of evolutionary history. A p...

Bin Laden and the Politics of Journalism

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Mark Wilson/Getty Images "One role of the journalist is to debunk crazy conspiracy theories, but another, more difficult role is t...

On a Different Kind of Stage

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AP/Luis Soto Guatemala's recent presidential elections yielded an interesting result: Jimmy Morales. The comedian who co-starred wit...

Yikes! Stripes!

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Of all the things most of us don't know about our bodies, this has to rank among the most bizarre. Moles, freckles, age spots, wrinkle...

Hey Batta Batta

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reason to celebrate                                                            AP/David J. Phillip Was it the email or something else en...

The Meat of the Matter

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giving peas a chance Investors and entrepreneurs are betting that, from here on out, we will be getting less and less of our protein fro...

It IS Brain Surgery

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Greg Grindley, a vet with Parkinson's, is the patient                                                    screen shot October 25 is a...

Men in Black

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David de la Mano People riding a whale. Some with tiny people riding them, some with implements that sprout other people. People with be...

Hawaii's Angkor Wat

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the way in                                                                    KW Anyone who was lucky enough to visit Kauai before Hurri...

Really, California? Lifesavers?

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Trick or treat? Not sure how much of this survey to believe, but according to influenster, the candy voted most popular in the most s...

Things Just Got Weirder

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Delft University campus                                                                                                                   ...

Out of the Woods

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some members of the Nomole (Mashco) tribe, 2013                                                           Reuters Here's something y...

Are You Sure?

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... and if you're not, are you OK with that? We live in a time of instant access to information, instant communication ~ and concurre...

Food Plight

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October 16 is World Food Day, a day of action that, according to the website ( http://www.worldfooddayusa.org/what-is-wfd ), began in 1979...

Islands in a Storm

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2014 satellite photo shows Chinese land reclamation on Fiery Reef, with dredging ships in the harbor                                      ...

Just Because: 'A Brief History of Seven Killings'

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Man Booker Prize Twitter "I'm not an easy writer to like." So says Marlon James, the first Jamaican to win Britain's e...

Citizens Requited

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almost $13 million came from Preston Hollow, Dallas                    Google Maps It should not be news that running a political campai...

100 Years, Relatively Speaking

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This November marks the 100th anniversary of Albert Einstein's theory of relativity. The articles and books that have been written abo...

Kiss Off?

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screen shot Is it passion or resistance? "Don't look at him, look at her," counsels art historian Dr. James Fox as he pres...

Where the Wild Things Are Undisturbed

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wild geese in Korea's DMZ                                                                                          Korea Times Here...