Nowhere Near the Edge

The webcam at Mt. Wilson , embedded with the dense farm of communications equipment that overlooks Los Angeles, gives the world a front row ...

The swim team season wrapped up a couple of weeks ago. It was everything that people told us it would be. It was a fun social opportunity ...

For the first time in three years, when Michael was still in pre-school, the school year began exactly like the previous year. Last year, e...

Do you have a rodent problem? Ditch the traps and poisons. Get a carnivorous plant . The Venus Flytrap is a mere popgun compared to the b...

Spend some time outside tonight watching meteors streak across the firmament. The annual Perseid meteor shower will be at its peak overnig...

This is a sad day for Gen-Xers. The man who simultaneously reflected and shaped our teen years, John Hughes, has died . He is the man behi...

The swim season is nearly over, but the intensity has ratcheted up in advance of the league finals. The kids had two-a-day practices last w...

Our daughter has been known, on occasion, to exhibit extreme sensitivity to... let's call it "sensation." Ever since she has ...

To non-fans, car racing makes little sense. It is loud, expensive, wasteful of resources and, worst of all, boring. Even if all of those t...

It's now nearly midnight on a Sunday night, and I just got home from work after putting in about 15 hours at the office over the weekend...

Welcome to the premiere of video at Nowhere Near The Edge. Not a link to a YouTube clip, but original content. You always get prime produc...

Michael Jackson's death has made its mark on popular culture in ways that echo the significance he and his music had. His iconic album,...

70 games into the season, the New York Yankees, the colossus of a franchise with the eleventy-billion dollar payroll, has a record of 38 win...

One man runs over and kills a pedestrian while driving drunk in the middle of the night. Another man steals three bikes. One of these men ...

More amusing than cops who commit crimes, more obvious than the dentist who doesn't brush, a group of Oahu firefighters recently caused ...

Just as we were told by many people before we joined, the swim team experience has, to a significant degree, taken over our lives. It has d...

The latest series of Volkswagen ads, which feature a Microbus voiced by Thomas Hayden Church, also include another mid-century icon: the Ei...

Motorsport is perhaps the most unstable of all forms of professional sports. Not only are rules changes implemented on an annual basis (at ...

Originally scheduled to follow the Enterprise, the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter mission has leapfrogged the manned mission and is scheduled...

This week's Mythbusters episode dealt with whether it is possible to stay dry in a convertible in the rain by driving fast. I could hav...