Medieval stained-glass windows colored in gold nanoparticles help purify air when lit by the sun, a new study finds.

Fay dumps heavy rains on Florida.

While I’m sure many readers of this blog have read their work before, it was not until this summer that I had a chance to meet Richard and Sally Price. Sally and Richard are anthropologists who work on historical anthropology, aesthetics, colonialism, and Afro-American culture with an emphasis on the Francophone variety. Although years ago [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sally and Richard Price", url: "http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/" });

While I’m sure many readers of this blog have read their work before, it was not until this summer that I had a chance to meet Richard and Sally Price. Sally and Richard are anthropologists who work on historical anthropology, aesthetics, colonialism, and Afro-American culture with an emphasis on the Francophone variety. Although years ago [...]SHARETHIS.addEntry({ title: "Sally and Richard Price", url: "http://savageminds.org/2008/08/21/sally-and-richard-price/" });

Genetic switch in male fruit flies shows how some animals get gender-specific showy traits.

Goliath fish once thought of as one species are actually two.

A 61-year-old Japanese woman gave birth to her own grandchild, using an egg donated by her daughter.

Reading about a disgusting scene can be as gross as watching one.

Members of Searching For Bigfoot, Inc. said they had been tricked into buying a fake sasquatch body from an ex-policeman. What do you think?

BEIJING—International Softball Federation officials met with the Netherlands softball team to explain the rules of the sport and provide...

ORLANDO—Fourteen-time Olympic gold medalist and SeaWorld main attraction Michael Phelps returned to his seven-million-gallon water tank Wednesday to resume his normal schedule of performing in six shows a day for marine park crowds every...

Dr. Janice Bishop works with many of today’s robotic Mars explorers.

Life-searching instruments are tested in Rio Tinto for an mission to Mars.

Onion Radio News - with Doyle Redland

link A Liberal Shock Doctrine by Rick Perlstein Progressive political change in American history is rarely incremental. With important exceptions, most of the reforms that have advanced our nation’s status as a modern, liberalizing social democracy were pushed through during narrow windows of progressive opportunity — which subsequently slammed shut with the work not yet complete. The post–Civil [...]

The glacier mummy called Iceman was likely a herdsman.

The planets in our solar system contain a diverse array of ingredients. But there are a lot of common elements that go into them.

Known biomarker easier to identify, so permanent joint damage may be avoided, study says

Researchers hope to develop noninvasive test to detect malignancies

When you read the New York Times, it’s often hard to tell whether we’re living in 2008 or during the Chester Arthur administration. For instance, Michiko Kakutani’s review of Thomas Frank’s book The Wrecking Crew apparently was xeroxed from reviews the Times was giving of similar books during the mid-Gilded Age: …hectoring…highly partisan, Manichaean-minded…screed…comes across as [...]