POSTED // Jan 30,2012 - I don't claim video games have been 100 percent beneficial. The Columbine massacre shooters were reportedly addicted to video games.

POSTED // Jan 21,2012 - Is there a difference between red (Republican heartland conservative) states and blue (Democratic coastal liberal) states in terms of IQ?

POSTED // Jan 16,2012 - In The Empire Strikes Back, there’s a scene where Han Solo must cut open his tauntaun and climb inside the steaming corpse with Luke.

POSTED // Jan 2,2012 - I’ve been reading about the coelacanth, the fish thought to have gone extinct 65 million years ago that turned up in an Indonesian fish market.

POSTED // Dec 26,2011 - As I was decorating my Christmas tree this year, I began to wonder if I was putting myself at risk from insects. I don’t like spiders much, and it would be even worse to have a Lyme-diseased tick bite me. Are Christmas trees fumigated, or are we bringing termites, etc., into our homes every holiday season? —Doug in L.A.

POSTED // Dec 19,2011 - There's a common belief that "sucking the poison out" is an effective snakebite remedy.

POSTED // Dec 12,2011 - The fact remains that we have few blue foods, in contrast to numerous foods of other common colors. Why?

POSTED // Dec 5,2011 - Know what I think about your answer [to the question of whether there’s a God]? (I mean, besides the fact that it was a load of soft-pedaling quasi-theistic horseshit?)

POSTED // Nov 28,2011 - The resultant global cooling will cancel out global warming and we can go on happily burning fossil fuels...

POSTED // Nov 21,2011 - What's that smell in the air right before it rains?