ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Henrietta here. This is an early picture of me. I managed to get rid of the scarf, don't worry. May you all have a happy and healthy ...

It is very hard. That's one of the reasons I don't do it much on my blog. The other one is that I don't know enough! Must get...

Today I had a good time clearing brush.

The post below discusses some of my general concerns with the Pew study. This one gives an example of how the popularization of findings wa...

The Pew Internet & American Life Project has just released a new report on gender differences in the use of the Internet. It is fascin...

The Korean stem cell scandal is still growing : The scandal surrounding disgraced South Korean stem cell researcher Hwang Woo Suk deepened t...

Men are not from Mars, after all. They are King Kongs! And women have the job of civilizing these monsters. A movie review of King King w...

He is quite vile as I have mentioned before. But he is even viler than I thought, because it seems all to have been a political veneer. No...

Bird Flu Fails to Take Wing

A long time ago I saw Karl Popper speak on tolerance. This was before his death, of course, but it was fairly close to it and Popper wasn...

The Japanese government wants to have more women in management positions . It even wants to have more gender equality! More daycare! Isn...

Long working hours, little respect. Who would want to run a company in such a world? Well, there are compensations. One is the weird fact...

Not really the dreaded writer's block, but I can't find anything that makes me itch to write about. So instead of something profoun...

This is something funny for you to read in the post-Christmas haze. The Nation has put a list of words and defined their meaning for the wi...

And I am not talking about all the chocolate I have devoured in honor of this Christian holiday. Which by the way now has turned into Boxin...

Desolation. People living in tents or trailers, fighting the insurance companies, waiting for the tardy government aid and fearing that the...

I have posted this last Christmas, too. I like it.: The Thunder, Perfect Mind I was sent forth from the power, and I have come to thos...

But it gladdens the heart, nevertheless. Via Atrios comes this quote from Barrons about the Snoopgate: Surely the "strict constructi...

I wanted to do a dreamy snowscape picture postcard of the dogs wearing their white furry Christmas collars with jingle bells but the dogs sa...

Chris Matthews got the Misinformer Of the Year award from Media Matters for America! He is called Tweety because he looks like Tweety. See...