My friend, the writer Kevin Roose, just started a project where he's trying to build a bunch of little brid ges across the red-blue/atheism-religion culture gap. Not a grand Roebling-style… Read the rest of the article: Can a book about Jerry Falwell bring people together?

World Record: Most Party Hats Worn At Once (Elna Baker) Photo: Emily Wilson Yesterday, the Air Force announced that its Waverider aircraft set the record for hypersonic flight — it… Read the rest of the article: The world's tallest Internet entrepreneur

Photo by chatirygirl / Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic License. A few months ago, I did an experiment in which I tried to be totally and completely rational for a… Read the rest of the article: 4 ways to Nudge Yourself

Mary Roach – one of my favorite science writers – has a book coming out this August. It's sort of like "The Right Stuff." But it's more like the weird… Read the rest of the article: Space Oddities

A couple of years ago, I wrote a book about trying to live by all the rules of the Bible – moral, dietary, sartorial. Also architectural. For that last one,… Read the rest of the article: Wanted: Steampunk Biblical Huts

My next book is about health, so I got a fitbit (in case you missed its debut last year, it's a souped-up pedometer that measures your calorie intake and output).… Read the rest of the article: Urinating uses up 141 calories per hour