Silicon Valley has evolved a critical mass of engineers and venture capitalists and all the support structure - the law firms, the real estate, all that - that are all actually geared toward being accepting of startups.

Of course, Sol is a big ball of hot gas, but one that - thanks to its endlessly boiling innards - shakes and vibrates. By studying patterns on the Sun's surface, astronomers can learn much about Sol's internal construction.

Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on.

There is something cheap about magic that works just because it is magic.