Satchel Paige: No Man Got to Be Common

Most Major League Baseball players retire from the sport before the age of 40. Do you know who holds the record as the oldest MLB player ever? That would be the late, great Leroy “Satchel” Paige, a remarkable American who many baseball…

Science can be pretty weird

Too bad my instructors for material science never discussed Prince Rupert's drop. While the dynamics of the forces within a Prince Rupert's drop are not the same as in concrete, they are a good demonstration of working with compressive…

Our Deeply Confused Ethical Sense

Some days.  Read this, “I Spent 491 Days as a Hostage of Hamas. This Is My Story.”  Now contrast it with this, “Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury.”  The later, published not long after the killings in…