Rusty Ring

"Whenever I'm about to do something, I think, 'Would an idiot do that?', and if they would, I do not do that thing....

Let's clear up a pernicious gaffe. The fundamental tenet of Darwinian theory is not that the strongest survive. That's be...

Once, when I was in Grade 2, my teacher had all of us save our milk carton from lunch. Afterward we folded it into a flower pot, filled i...

'Way back in January 2011 I wrote an article about walking sticks . In it I posited that this oldest of purpose-made tools was quint...

Depression is the elephant in the meditation hall. Virtually all Zenners suffer from it; nobody becomes a monk because he's happy. Bu...

This is an ensatina. I found her while clearing some rotten wood out from under the lower deck. Ensatinas are found only on the...