Where violence has stopped making sense

Are we living through the least violent moment in human history? Has there ever been an age, during the past 10,000 years, with fewer wars or mass killings or chances of being murdered?

Pruney fingers give humans a super-grip!

Geckos and spiders get all the grip-related glory. No more. We primates have super adaptations on our fingertips as well. One of those adaptations has been right under our noses every time we bath: our wrinkling, pruney fingers.

Obama Gives 5 Billion Dollars to Cronies

Bill O’Reilly said yesterday that GE earned five billion dollars last year and paid zero dollars in taxes. He repeatedly pointed out that GE is a “friend” of Obama.