Beer Here!
What's the Fourth without beer? Here's a gallery of microphotographs of the world's most famous beers. I think they're beeyootiful.
Wes Phillips
A Catalan Treat for Your Barbecue
Yeah, yeah, we all know that you grill burgers'n'brats on the Fourth, but that only takes a few minutes and then yo have all those coals going great. What to do with that lovely fire? Here's a non-intuitive dish that will excite absolutely no one—until they taste it! Then you won't have made enough.
Fireworks For the Fourth
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Confirmation Bias
My buddy John Atkinson likes to say that what makes science work is not simply the measurement of observed phenomena, but the scientist's refusal to believe those measurements. I once asked him if he'd teach me to do audio measurements and he said no, "because you'd believe the measurements—a good scientist knows the measurements are trying to lie to him."
You Had Better Stop and Think Before You Think, Think!
While we're thinking about thinking, think about this: Recent research confirms that animals have language, experience complex emotions, and can apply abstract reasoning—including the assimilation of previously acquired information—to problem solving. So why do we think we're so special?
Music For One Apartment and Six Drummers
So that's why my apartment is always a mess when I get home!
FOIA Turns 40
Jimmy Carter says happy birthday FOIA and tells us why we need less secrecy, not more.
Want One!
The guy who invented TV-B-Gone ought to get a Nobel Prize. I don't mind being at bars or places where people are actually watching TV, but I resent being the only person in a waiting room with the TV blaring inanities. And when you ask the receptionist to turn it off, you get answers like "Other people like it."
Stressing Those Abs
Huckleberry decides to add exercise to his regimen. He's already on the Atkins diet.
Bagheera the Trainer
Bagheera demonstrates how to supercharge the obliques. That girl is flexible!