I'm about to make a confession of which I am not proud: I love TV. I don't think I loved TV before TiVo and DVRs, but now, like Depeche Mode, I just can't get enough. And with the Discovery Channel,…
Not to disparage the fine state of Iowa, but I've never had the compulsion to go there. I've probably driven through it on one of my family's many road trips across the country, but I can't say I remember anything…
Considered by some to be the first scientist, Roger Bacon was a Franciscan friar and English philosopher known for his emphasis on empirical research and experimentation. Bacon studied at Oxford at the tender age of 13, and later became an…