I have a couple of registry cleaners that I run whenever I install or uninstall a program—Windows generally mucks up the registry with either action. MakeUseOf.com has a post on the top freeware registry cleaners, so I downloaded the free version of...

Fascinating article, and thanks to The Younger Daughter for the pointer: The remains of a mighty Persian army said to have drowned in the sands of the western Egyptian desert 2,500 years ago might have been finally located, solving one of...

Pigs are too smart and too self-aware.

This interview in New Scientist is quite interesting. It begins: Under the name Belle de Jour, Brooke Magnanti wrote about her experiences as a prostitute for a London escort agency, and her blog became a bestselling book, The Intimate Adventures of a...

The US has become quite hostile to foreign visitors—not in person-to-person interactions, but in the bureaucratic travel procedures that the US, enormously fearful, has put in place after 9/11. The climate is such that foreign students are not so...