Cooking and Human Origins, Big Kangaroos, Little Dinosaurs | PRI’s The World: Science Summer, has by fits and starts finally arrived, and for the park-dwelling communities of some Londoners, this means as I observed during a recent visit, that the... read more

Some weeks ago, I wrote about an article by Alain Beauvilain and Jean-Pierre Watté, in my post, "Sahelanthropus: Did camelherders bury Toumaï facing Mecca?" If you missed that post, go back and read it -- it gives some essential backgr... read more

Speaking at this three day conference in Puebla, on a programme that flatters me. Other speakers include Dan Dennett, Philip Zimbardo, Francis Fukuyama, among others.Full details here. read more

Just a few bits of George Herriman's unique brand of linguistic revelry from Krazy & Ignatz 1939-1940: "A Brick Stuffed with Moom-bins"; all these are taken from the strip of January 15, 1939: [Ignatz:] I'm sure in delight that I'm not a "... read more

Because it would end embarrassing mistakes like this one. A group of teenagers misunderstood a woman's screams during sex and, thinking they were stopping an assault, beat a 25-year-old man in her bedroom, police said. Multiple tragedies here: not... read more