Stephen Hawking recently told us that God didn’t create the universe; gravity did. Hawking said that the existence of life necessitates conditions under which life can evolve (we’ll sidestep the tautology of this argument for now). We shouldn’t be so surprised that we’re here and we’re not...

Here’s why there was an horrific earthquake in Haiti: It sits on an unstable fault line between two tectonic plates, just like the one a few miles away from where I sit in Southern California. The awful, simple truth is that the beautiful island of Hispaniola rests on a piece of the planet that’s...

My wife TiVo’s The View and watches it at night. Sometimes I’ll catch a snippet while I’m waiting for my turn to watch Friday Night Lights, The Office, or Sportscenter. I do not watch The View on purpose. Ever. When I do it’s only for the sake of my marriage. Let it go. Anyway, I heard one of...

First, let me say I am not scientifically inclined. I took one year of biology and two years of Forensics Science in high school (it was a law-based pseudo-magnet school). I’m not sure how reliable the latter was, since the teacher taught us J. Edgar Hoover became President of the United States....

We’re still brainstorming ways to raise money for Burnside 2.0. One of the ideas, one that was discussed at length, was somehow cashing in on the Y2K-esque hysteria that will surround the next end-of-the-world scenario. Unfortunately, we realized selling stockpiled canned goods and water wouldn’t...