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All Elephant and No Castle: a secret bestiary of the London Underground

The theory behind the substance graphene was first explored by theoretical physicist Philip Wallace in 1947 as kind of a starting point when he was doing research trying to understand […]

“New Evangelical” Joel Hunter (blue shirt) works with church members on a recycling campaign.Evangelical leader Joel C. Hunter, a registered Republican, will give the closing prayer at the Democratic National […]

Confidence is a trait typically cast as a higher-order function in the brain. It’s at once the act of making a decision, recognizing the decision as thought, and measuring the […]

A strange return to the age of the dinosaurs

A weird marriage of urban planning and personality cult

Eilert Sundt must have had a busy, happy week. As the president of the Norwegian Cartozoological Society, Mr Sundt probably is the world’s most prominent ambassador of the obscure discipline […]

The weird sport of hunting for animals in maps

The blithe feathers of our nation’s patrimony are now literally weighed down by oil, but our government and press already exude the sticky toxins of petroleum. In a sense, petroleum […]

The only way to visit this island is to read the book

It might have snuffed out Secession with minimal loss of life; but Lincoln chose both the blockade and an invasion

Self serving, egotistical and narcissistic. These epithets accurately describe the personality and motivations of former UK Business Secretary, former Northern Ireland Secretary and former Industry Secretary, Lord Peter Mandelson. Which […]

Prester John as virtual as he was virtuous, the legend literally too good to be true.

Juan Battle has found that in the black population, discussions of sex and sexuality revolve around money.

While the rest of the world is shuddering at the debt pile mounting up on its balance sheets India is the elephant in the room as one of the few regions to have had a “good crisis.”

Several media and technology sources recently reported on The Huffington Post’s intentions to aggregate and curate Twitter entries (Tweets), categorizing them into the 19 sections The Huffington Post already covers, […]

Remarkably well preserved genetic information has been found in the fossilised eggshells of an extinct species of elephant bird from Madagascar, the biggest bird ever to walk this earth.

The second week of Britain’s General Election campaign ended with many commentators – and even more voters – yawning and complaining that this is fast becoming the most boring General […]

Within the span of a week, three polls concerning the special election to replace the late Edward Kennedy have put the contestants at wildly different standings. It has allowed political […]

Senator Harry Reid of Nevada has had all of political America talking about an issue that used to be confined mostly to the African American community — whether or not […]

Whenever I hear the name of Turner Prize-winning artist, Chris Ofili, I unfortunately think of the old Monty Python joke: “What’s brown and sounds like a bell? Dung!” For Americans […]

There’s a herd of tame elephants in Indonesia that is used to patrol the 200,000 acre park-like jungle Guardian Angels to stop intruding pachyderms from killing humans.

Royal Caribbean International is continuing to dock its luxury cruise ships on the beaches near Labadee in Haiti, near the epicenter of the earthquake. Some passengers are queasy about this. […]

I buy books. I also have written a book. So I have a more-than-idle interest in this week’s giant-monster fight over ebooks, which pitted Amazon against the big publisher Macmillan […]

After the Office of the President went eight years without tackling many of our contemporary crises, there’s a lot to be done. It makes you wish Hillary had won and […]

During the presidential campaign in 2008, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) reportedly said in private that he believed that the country was ready to elect a black man who, […]

When Nigeria handed over a disputed peninsula to Cameroon last year, it looked a lot like a happy ending — a war averted and, in the words of the United […]

Scientists have discovered the world’s largest species of the giant golden orb-weaver spider.

A refreshingly non-mainstream media company, INFOWARS.COM, has released a new documentary in the tradition of other cult docs like Loose Change and Zeitgeist. The new film is called Fall of […]

“Obama’s War,” the smart Frontline episode about Afghanistan and Pakistan, includes a disquieting exchange between a U.S. Marine and two tribal elders in a remote Afghan village. Since this Global […]