There’s an old comedy cliché about firemen holding a big net and asking people to jump. Is this a fictional invention, or was there really a time when this was […]

Is it really possible to purchase a lord, laird, or lady title online? As I understand it, some websites allow anyone to buy a square foot of land in Scotland […]

Years ago I made the mistake of reading a book called The Journeyer by Gary Jennings, about the life and adventures of Marco Polo. If you’re not familiar with Jennings’s […]

For centuries people have been proclaiming that the End of the World is right around the corner. Are there any psychological studies of how these people cope when the date […]

Concerning your April column on whether nuclear power is safe: Nuclear power sucks. Coal power sucks more. Boggles my mind that we don’t just ditch them both and use options […]

My co-worker shocked me by reporting that, in ten years or so, bananas will be extinct. Refusing to take him at his word, I searched on the Internet for some […]

I read an article recently about a man who says our current chronology is about a thousand years off and that the years between 500 to 1500 (to round it […]

I was recently distracted from my dust allergy woes by a Radiolab episode discussing how the noble but misunderstood hookworm might offer me some relief. Apparently the parasite has been […]

I’m aware this is a dumb question, but in a way that reassures me because I’m relieved of the task of checking to see if any of your other readers […]

As an environmentalist, I was wondering if the rising popularity of erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra, Cialis, Levitra, etc, has caused a corresponding subsidence in the demand for powdered rhinoceros […]

On a recent drive along I-80 I was amazed at the number of wind turbines that have been added in the last couple of years. If enough wind turbines were […]

There’s an MP3 on the ‘net right now purporting to be a “North Dakota weather alert” in which some reject from Fargo warns, “It is f’ing cold outside. Stay inside, […]