We were trying to decide what to do with the kids today when it occurred to me that it would be fun to have a scavenger hunt. The problem w...

I'm working my way through a copy of Robert W. Lawson's translation of Einstein's Relativity . This isn't a mathematical tr...

Ever been to one of those meetings where, halfway through someone's crucial point, the suit pulls out his BlackBerry? As the tiny scree...

A couple of years ago, my wife Danielle and I stumbled across The Secret , the by now well known self-help film about the law of attraction....

(Or, "In the New Economy, Downtime is Cool.") One of the things that I find entertaining about Twitter is the way they've made...

Interesting article by some Google folks about the effect that having access to a really, really huge text corpus has on machine translation...