Recently, I was using an online Japanese-English dictionary, looking up meanings for the character "zan" 残. I was going through al...

The Victorian-era Anti-Slavery movement consisted of some of the most progressive and forward-thinking people of the age. But even they were...

Actually, two of these are from last week. About a month or so ago, in a typical session, I was happy with a lot of my drawings. I thought t...

Since I'm writing about meteorites, I thought I'd post this up. It's from something I wrote on the JREF forums some years ago. ...

It is not often that something I'm already researching becomes front page news , but yesterday's dramatic meteor storm over Russia h...