The BTP posits that it's possible to take a solid sphere, cut it into pieces, rearrange the pieces using nothing more than rotation and translation, and then re-assemble them into two identical copies of the original sphere. "In other words," <I>www.kiro5hin.org</I&gt; explains, "you've doubled the volume of the original sphere."

Teaching Buddhist precepts with a cartoon kitty. Probably won't cause riots.

Turns out, it might reinforce a bad call rather than correct one. What works better? Maybe the pause button.

Although 1905 is remembered as Einstein's <I>annus mirabilis</I>, there were other scientists doing good work then, too. Tony Rothman gives a few of them a shout-out.

Glad to learn these are myths. I've always wondered if my year in Peru was wasted just because I could never determine if the water swirled in the wrong direction in my basin. I still can't tell you which way it flows when I flush.

Seconds before they explode, giant stars hum middle C.