Part life story, part medical treatise on the long-term mental effects of pot smoking, Peter Ames Carlin's new biography, Paul McCartney: A Life, chronicles the once and future Beatle from his parent's meeting all the way through his latest album,...

Today's robots were inspired by a photo I took many years ago at the Tower of London: You could get those self-guided tour CDs and wander around with a disc spinning on your chest. How I wished we could have spinning discs on our chests all the...

I've been consuming two pieces of National Park entertainment lately. I don't know what serendipity caused this to happen, but I'm happy it did. Ken Burns turned in his latest opus, a documentary on the national parks called America's Greatest Idea. ...

Cars, like penguins, have the capacity for both goodness and evil. Do cars have souls? Doubtful, unless they are voiced by Paul Newman. But Saturday I witnessed the extremes of car behavior, and it all happened within a matter of two minutes. I was...

You can subscribe to the daily episode of Welcome to Falling Rock National Park! Ever since a wizard over at ProCreate helped me update to a Wordpress site, the daily strip can now be read in any RSS reader. Say you have a Google homepage. Add a new...