Albert Einstein

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What's Albert Einstein Got to Do with Ashley Judd? More Than You Might Think.

$7 at Chicago Italian Beef on Airline

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Good and Rotten

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

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Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Buoyant Bard

Smart Shakespeare In Love treads lightly into romantic comedy

"Einstein"

It's all relativity

Bob Zany

This comic gives new meaning to working blue

Home Again

Ten years brings the Texas justice system to its senses. Roy Criner's free.

Explosive Action

Get a bang for your buck this Fourth of July

I'm a Loser, Baby

Will success spoil Neil Hamburger? Don't bet on it

A Kinky Kind of Campaign?

Friedman may be just the one to muss up Guv Goodhair's re-election plan

Leatherface to Picasso

UT's Harry Ransom Center has it all

Phantom of the Opry

Trying to get to the bottom of the Dr Pepper "Freaky Old Guy" mystery

Agent of Doom

Former enemies unite against the continuing fallout from deadly defoliants of the Vietnam War

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Former enemies unite against the continuing fallout from deadly defoliants of the Vietnam War

21st Annual Young Inventors Showcase

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Houston: From Moron Metropolis to Genius City In Two Short Months

​Two months ago, the Daily Beast ranked all American cities according to their estimation of each place's municipal IQ.They measured how many residents had bachelor's and graduate degrees, nonfiction book sales, the ration of institutions of higher education, and political engagement, as measured ... More >>

Game Time: NFL Conference Title Predictions...Channeling College Football

There's no two ways about it, my NFL playoff predictions have been terrible. As I outlined on Monday, I reached a point this past weekend, after going goose eggs on the first seven games, where I picked the Jets to beat the Chargers outright merely because every rational thought and shred of evide ... More >>

Intelligent Life

When NASA employee April Evans questioned animal experiments, her career fell apart.

Arthur Rubinstein, Pimp Pianist, Sick-Burns Einstein

Carl Van Vecht​Today is Arthur Rubinstein's birthday, and if he were still alive he would be a) 124 years old; and b) almost certainly banging ballerinas in their early twenties. Perhaps the most celebrated pianist of the last century, Rubinstein himself admitted that there were other pianists ... More >>

To Quote: The Scientist: Ask a Stupid Question, Get a Band Name

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off were working hard t find meaning in the oddest monikers. ​Your humble narrator does a lot of writing for the Houston Press, the editors of which are very keen to publish our work in return for us k ... More >>

An Evening with David Eagleman

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off were working hard t find meaning in the oddest monikers. ​Your humble narrator does a lot of writing for the Houston Press, the editors of which are very keen to publish our work in return for us k ... More >>