Professor Yeti

Five Lizards and Why They’re Great

Gila monster (known to eat humans)
Newt (humorous reminder of Mr. Gingrich)
Gecko (Geico commercials)
Alligator (longest surviving dinosaur)
Five-lined skink (can re-grow tail)

Five Natural Disasters That Did Not Occur in 2005

Plague of locusts
Massive asteroid strike on major city
Hell freezing over
Tsunami of Savings at Gordy’s Above-Ground Pools
Poles suddenly reversing

Five States Spelled Backwards

Aksala
Ippississim
Oiho
Nogero […]

Professor Yeti offers his wisdom to a lonely soul, a confused cowboy wannabe and a streetwise critter named Bruce.

Not everyone can go on epic, heroic expeditions. Sometimes, you have to find your adventure on the road more traveled.

Don’t stop reading just because I said Columbus.

MySpace is one of the most popular websites ever, but is it also one of the ugliest?

How seeing Coldplay live in concert reaffirmed my faith in the band.

This month we’ll look at physics. The following excerpt is taken from an essay about Albert Einstein and is directed at a general audience of scientists and students familiar with the history of the field.

Einstein argued that assuming the validity of Boltzmann’s entropy principle (S = k log W) for radiation fields in the Wien […]

On how humans understand, with a sprinkling of overeating, James Joyce, and Isaiah Berlin.

On speaking French, teenage rascals, and how to say it really hurts.

“Give it to me! . . . Now!”