Comparison: . . . a lot of his other major policy goals from ending the Affordable Care Act [to] getting Mexico to pay for his border...

Comparison: Freezing usually doesn’t happen right at zero degrees for much the same reason that backyard wood piles don’t spontaneously...

Comparison: Although wolverines naturally prefer to live in snow-packed mountain habitats and aren't known to attack humans, the idea of...

Comparison: We all know now that the Pac-12 CEO Group turned into a disjointed, double-crossing, back-stabbing pack of gunslingers. The...

[The comparison from Thomas Friedman below is unusually long (compared to most analyzed in this blog). But, that's part of the point....

Comparison: A slab avalanche of wet, heavy snow rushed down the mountainside and slammed into the two stalled trains. It pushed them—and...

Comparison: So they poked it. They sent commands to Voyager 1, trying to jolt it back to coherence. The [tiger] team had a list of...

Comparison: The rabble holding cheap tickets who board last are most affected, but even jet-setters with elite status seem to worry about...

Comparison: ChatGPT is dumber than it looks. That’s not true for a screwdriver. Or a table saw or even a spatula. These are useful tools,...

Comparison: Astronomers have discovered the first known instance of a baby star ‘sneezing.‘ The cosmic discharge, which may have occurred...

Comparison: . . . if you haven't sailed here, if you haven't put in your ten thousand hours, these counter-currents, these eddies, it's...

Comparison: Yet it’s startling how much energy shoots though her via a simple handshake: if a woodland creature could shake your hand, it...

Comparison: Once you realize smartphones are like the cuckoo bird. So the Cuckoo bird lays her egg in other birds' nests; that egg...

Comparison: The last one had the element of surprise, which kept things shocking for a while in a way that was honestly a bit distracting...

Comparison: At one point, a dozen or so heroes amass at the old Ghostbusters headquarters in Manhattan to protect a storage trap of...

Comparison: Reentry [from prison] is not [an easy path]. It is a rocky, winding, switchbacked trail, overgrown in some places,...

Comparison: You paid thousands of dollars to learn what Toni Morrison had to teach you about the evils of slavery and you gave that...

Comparison: Everyone in the operation understands the dynamic by now, nobody more than [Issac] Prewitt and  [Will] McIntire, who...

Comparison: But when we understand that what we call particles are actually little ripples, little waves in the fields of the universe,...

Comparison: ‘The old phrase is that bankruptcy is like being in a fishbowl,‘ Hampson said. Insight offered by U of Florida law professor...