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The ancient freezer's thick walls and door-- yes, they don't make 'em like that anymore. I stopped by St. Pius Catholic Chur...

In news that you may have missed, one planet in our solar system is covered with sewer gas clouds. Of course, that planet is Uranus. a stud...

(Economist image) One inviolate rule of grammar has been the prohibition of split infinitives. The Economist's new style guide proc...

New gene-based treatments for cancer show immense promise----and have immense costs : Novartis AG listed its newly approved cell therapy f...

Tending to a stabbing victim after the sweep (Chron photo) When an organization needs someone to shake things up, it often calls in an o...

The 1978 thriller is about a terrorist threat to the San Andreas fault. Economists Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore predict an accelerat...

The Economist produces an entertaining short history of liberalism, What Have Liberals Ever Done for Us? If liberals were true to their ...

On Sunday both father and baby daughter were baptized. I had attended hundreds of baptisms but had never seen that pairing before. It was...

When average, middle-class houses in our town began selling for a cool $1 million, we thought insanity had gripped the real-estate market....

Helpful for me, this time .  If it seems to be a "normal" cold or flu I don't like to go to the doctor. She'll just te...

Philip Zimbardo today (Chron photo) The study is so old that it was discussed in Psych 101 when I was in college. The study had so great...

The blog post from six years ago applies word-for-word, with just the reference to the years needing updating. Pathetic. On many April 14t...

Two future Presidents and one First Lady, 1947 ( Time) Barbara Bush was the last of the "traditional" First Ladies, that is, s...

A friend with whom I have some business dealings gave me the bad news; he halted chemotherapy because the treatments haven't worked. No,...