I was looking through the photo archives yesterday and found this. Which brings us to today’s puzzler. A genuine no-prize to the first person who tells me what this is. And— just for the record— “a leftover piece of Sixties psychedelia” is not the correct answer.

Here we have a video of an Iranian paramilitary before and after he fired randomly into a crowd of protestors, killing at least one person. (Well, they did set fire to his building.) We can see his face. There are people watching this video who probably know where he lives, and who his parents and […]

I have written elsewhere of my experiments with beer-can-up-the-butt chicken. It’s tasty, it’s ridiculously easy, and it’s a lot easier to clean up than if you used your grill’s rotisserie attachment. But there are drawbacks as well. It’s easy for the chicken to topple over and start a fire or get burned. I’m not sure […]

News from the World O’ Science:We may have seen our first extra-galactic planet. Micro-lensing may have shown that a star in the Andromeda Galaxy has a planet six times the size of Jupiter.The advantage of microlensing is that it works best for more distant objects, so it’s ideal for planet hunting in other galaxies. In […]