New York State Sen. Carl Krueger introduced a bill that would make it illegal to enter a city crosswalk while engaging in the use of an electronic device. His contention is that people who are listening to music, typing on their blackberry, talking on their phone, etc. are not aware...

"Spend the beginning of your life surrounded by brilliant people who can give you a solid foundation of knowledge and wisdom, and spend the rest of your life surrounded by people who will make you question it."

So, Chief Illiniwek is giving his last rain dance this week, and is officially retiring as the University of Illinois mascot. So, I understand the reasons behind this, but I don't understand the choosing of "offendiest". When I was in junior high, they took away our Washington Warriors mascot, and...

Can a woman participate in in vitro fertilisation while morally being anti-abortion? Is there a conflict here, since more embryos will be created than are used?

Alright all you venture capitalists out there, do I have the next hot web trend for you! Move over Myspace, enter Wiccapedia - your online encyclopedia for everything you need to know about the damned.

So, there's a lot of kids out there who, even after public school health class, don't really understand how sexual interaction works. The school nurse gives them condoms, but is that really enough to prepare them for the sexual world? I propose a mandatory Sexploration class. It could replace a...

So, do you remember hearing about the guys who said we should build big spaceships that we could fill with landfills and blast them off of Earth? Many people found this idea to be economically inefficient. But, my friend brought up another point courtesy of Mr. Einstein. His findings were...

So, come Springtime, many people will run out to their local Menards/Home Depot/Lowes and buy some fertilizer to get their lawns off to a great start and looking its greenest. But, we don't actually want our lawn to GROW fast, do we? Because that means we have to cut it...

I am reading (listening) to Plato's masterpiece, "The Republic", which discusses the philosophy of his mentor, Socrates, through a fictional narrative. As I read (listen), I find myself hearing nuggets of Socratic wisdom that we have already come to on this site. However, not many of us (at least not...

So, there's a bunch of flaming hot magma directly below us in the Earth's core. It's like our own personal sun. Except, it's millions of miles closer. So, how bout we start digging down there and harnessing the energy down there created by the heat?