These unintended incidents are all accidents waiting to happen

Yes, it is time for an exciting new episode of Evolving English! For 14 billion years, since the BBC invented English to report the Big Bang, the word "accident" meant "unwanted, unintended incident."

Hey! Who's Flying This Thing?

It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a flying robot.

Erbe: A public appeal to stop privatization

Will the political genius who invented privatization please step forward so those of us who know what a flop it is can haul out our rotten tomatoes and dispose of them accordingly? Thank you!

The Tech Behind Flying People

A look at the technology behind the promotion for the movie "Chronicle."

Alternate history lessons for children's fiction

As well as rip-snorting adventures, the new wave of alternate histories for kids asks searching questions about technology Kids' historical fiction has been thriving since Hector was a pup – educational enough to satisfy parents and teachers, red-blooded and strong-smelling enough to gratify young readers themselves. Recently, though, a speculative slip grafted on the historical bough has begun ...

Donnie Clark: Myakka City marijuana legend turned backyard gardener

More than a decade after his pardon, the former pot grower leads a quiet life, with a book in a the works