Pan's Garden

my favorite comic strip ever .

One reason horoscopes don't matter. And another .

Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo .

Bring on the retrograde: Yes, Mercury Is in Retrograde. So What? Perhaps you’ve noticed that things have gone a bit screwy the past couple...

Screw Christmas and Thanksgiving, we should have a major holiday honoring these newfound "ancestors": Prehistoric Fish Pioneered S...

Despite his better judgement, some jackass writing in The Daily Beast accedes to circumsizing his newborn son…because his wife is grossed ou...

In this thoughtful, even-handed essay , The Atlantic 's Hanna Rosin leads us through the heart-wrenching mine field of gender dysphoria ...

An fascinating article on the evolutionary benefits of taking offense (sort of) from Slate's Emily Yoffe.  Choice cut: Study the topic ...

Michaele Weissman searches for the perfect cuppa . Sample shot: Journalist Michaele Weissman says she had her first real cup of coffee in 20...

Slate.com has just started a cool new article series which delves into the lives of revolting creatures. Installment one is A Tick's Li...

Warming schmarming. If coastal cities get taken out by elevated ocean levels just move to a lilypad . Sign me up. More here .

Can a night owl become a morning lark? As a die-hard night person myself, I can attest to the strange allure of becoming a morning person. I...

This is pretty amazing.  Genesis of a Virus Scientists witness the birth of an HIV particle as it happens. Over the years, HIV has proved a ...

Group wants Wi-Fi banned from public buildings A group in Santa Fe says the city is discriminating against them because they say that they...

A new project from Sundance Channel and Isabella Rossellini that is somewhat educational, strangely funny and utterly…fucking bizarre. It de...

I used to have a pet theory that the geography one resided in affected one's psychology. It was nothing empirically provable, but seemed...

The third in a series of "big questions" posed by the John Templeton Foundation. It's a fascinating discussion among world-cla...

I've never had a chance to try this, though I've been curious since reading about it in the early 90s. Well, it turns out it may be ...

Yesterday was a sad day, indeed. The world lost a great man, a revolutionary chemist, experiencer of the best bike ride in history,  Albert ...