Never mind the 40-foot snake that menaced Jennifer Lopez in the 1997 movie "Anaconda." Not even Hollywood could match a new discovery from the ancient world. ...more

February 4, 2009

Most clocks just tell time, simply and reliably. Not the $1.8 million "time eater" formally unveiled Friday at Corpus Christi College in Cambridge. ...more

September 20, 2008

The opening title track of My Morning Jacket's new album is hooky modern pop except for the middle section, which sounds like "The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway"-era Genesis, had Steve Hackett been way into bluegrass. ...more

June 19, 2008

I grew up in north Georgia knowing that my grandmother was born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in 1882. Her Hulsey family traveled there in 1881. Unfortunately, I was too young to be interested in genealogy when my grandmother was alive and never asked about her childhood. ...more

January 20, 2008