Monday, I wrote a little thing about Oakland's 20-game winning streak last season. A Topps card described the streak as "truly one in a million," but I thought their math was a bit simplistic and I ...

Around noon one day last June, an elderly woman was mugged in an alley in San Pedro, Calif. Shortly afterward, a witness saw a blonde girl, her pony tail flying, run out of the alley, get into a ...

What the Mets are banking on, as much as anything, is this: Math. Specifically: Good math. Specifically: The laws of probability reversing course and carrying them to a full season of peace and ...

In general, a scientific law is the description of an observed phenomenon. It doesn't explain why the phenomenon exists or what causes it. The explanation for a phenomenon is called a scientific ...

To put it plainly, Darwin’s theory of the origin of life and its evolution is bunk. Scientific evidence points to intelligent design, a fact inconsistent with Darwinism and perfectly consistent with ...

"Yes or no: was there once life on Mars?" I can't say. "What about intelligent life?"' That seems most unlikely, but again, I can't really say. The simple yes-or-no framework has no place for shadings ...

A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian coast last week when a humpback whale jumped clear out of the water and landed on their yacht. A HOLIDAYING family was sailing off the Australian ...

It was 11:30 a.m. on Friday, June 9, 1953, when I parked my car in New York City and pondered once again what I had set out to do. For the next seven or eight hours, until dusk or until my legs gave ...