Wes Phillips

Again from Jeff Wong—he's such a nice boy, I may take the day off and let him guest blog. This video clip shows the girl giant waking up, taking a shower from the sultan's elephant, and wandering off in St. James Park to play. It's from a site specific art work by Royal de Luxe (story herehttp://www.thesultanselephant.com/">here;) and I think it's magical. The girl giant's face is wonderfully expressive.

Heck, I find something that works, I stick with it.

Jeff Wong's unintentional guest-blogging continues with this lurvely little paean to the cassette.

Scientists in Malta are excited about what they're learning from a mummified duck-billed brachylophosauruses. The pictures are fabulous.

The Archimedes Palimpsest suggests that the canny philosopher understood infinity not just as heuristics and mystics, but refined and defined down to the last line. Nearly two millennia before the Calculus—eureka indeed.

Ed Quillen asks a big question that Congress ought to be asking in the rush to protect property rights.

Researchers led by the Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology in Italy are developing robots that employ Embedded and Communicating Agents to evolve and develop without human "intervention." Better start making 'em three laws safe.