Carl Sagan would have turned 75 yesterday. I can't help but wonder what the state of the world and our general attitude toward science would be today without his courageous quest to popularize science and inspire skepticism, critical thinking and awe...

Born from humble beginnings rooted in deplorable poverty and a broken home, Charles Spencer Chaplin would one day rise to worldwide prominence through the artistry of his comedic genius and the newly invented ability to disseminate information, art and...

I don't know if you've had the patience to watch Glenn Beck make a complete ass of himself during the past year with his dramatic accusations, preposterous associations, exaggerations, inventions, convulsions, fear mongering, crying, non-sequiturs, ad...

Nature and its laws seem to be governed by patterns which can be described mathematically, and human beings have been hard at work trying to make sense of such patterns for a very long time. In this first episode of the documentary series The Story of...

We're probably all guilty, English majors included, of occasionally laughing at English majors. But here is a little vindication for language enthusiasts in the form of some kick-ass alliteration from V for Vendetta. And here is the original scene,...