A short documentary tells a little known story of the rescue of 500,000 people in the aftermath of the attacks in Manhattan on Sept. 11, 20...

It is an ancient political tactic - the claim a candidate will "bring the Nation back" to something it was but is no more. I'...

Cats continue to exert control over Science and the Internet.

This week I received an invitation from Michael Silence of the Knoxville News Sentinel for some thoughts about the terrorist attacks on Sep...

I can't make much headway puzzling out what Texan presidential wanna-be Rick Perry might have meant when talking about science and Galil...

GOP hopeful Mitt Romney keeps getting into trouble because of one thing - he's using words. Words, which are made into sentences, which ...

A recent essay by recently retired Republican staffer Mike Lofgren, after 30 years serving House and Senate Budget Committees, is stirring u...

While it is only slated to play in a handful of cities in the U.S. and Canada over the next month, the epic adventure "Detective Dee an...

"If Americans wanted a responsible Congress, ready and willing to act in the nation’s interest, and able to work constructively in res...

Waves of seismic activity from the Aug. 23rd quake in Virginia swept across the country, as shown in the video below ( via ) As the b...

It is one of those memorable headlines - "Streaker Arrested With Raccoon In Car" - that just begs for more information. Fortunat...

FOX News and some Republicans want to eliminate the National Weather Service and National Hurricane Center, claiming private companies like ...

The impact Steve Jobs and Apple have had on technology, communications, business and more takes massive work to catalog. The Moveable Fest ...

As I wrote earlier this month, I've taken up The Twitter again , and today I did have much fun with it, but if said fun had any value, I...

The facts of the $39 billion dollar buyout of T-Mobile by AT&T reveal how much AT&T is willing to strangle the truth to get what the...

Songwriter Jerry Leiber passed away Monday and has left an enormous legacy of American music for the world to enjoy. Leiber and writing par...

The Washington Post (and others) today are highlighting this photo above, taken Oct.2010 - noting that African-Arab leaders (front row) l...

Not too many kings make guest appearances on science fiction shows. But Jordan's King Abdullah II did, for "Star Trek: Voyager...

I, for one, like humans. Mostly. A rally pushing a growing grassroots movement to repeal laws which define corporations as "people...

Tom Humphrey's Sunday column in the KNS on how much Tennessee (and every other state) depends on Federal funding, despite political cla...