I've mentioned the worldwide drop in violence previously, and I've occasionally touched on the role of media in distorting the perc...

Policeman breaks up a fight between a drunk and a taxidriver It can't have escaped any reader of this blog that I like Osaka. I really ...

In further proof that a) scientists are no smarter than anyone else outside their own field; and b) nobody really understands all the resear...

Our local post office got robbed today, and three people got stabbed - nobody fatally, as luck would have it. The robber wasn't the clea...