When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?

When it comes to basketball, I've never been nervous in my life. Why start now?

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear read more

Scientists tend to resist interdisciplinary inquiries into their own territory. In many instances, such parochialism is founded on the fear that intrusion from other disciplines would compete unfairly for limited financial resources and thus diminish their own opportunity for research.

Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, read more

Below the current, the economy has been improving far more than the market reality would indicate. And all things considered, the market is really behaving quite well today [Thursday]. But there's still tremendous anxiety; the market is held hostage to individual corporate news and accountability.

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989—it's that the area experiencing intense read more

It's not that the ground motions in 1906 were significantly larger than those in 1989—it's that the area experiencing intense shaking was much, much greater. We don't know if the next rupture will look like 1906 earthquake, but we know that many of the same areas hit hard in 1906, like San Francisco, Santa Rosa, and the Santa Cruz mountains will be hit hard again in the next large earthquake on the San Andreas Fault .

I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up read more

I'm very pleased with my performance and being up there with Karin and Joane, both of whom I look up to, is great. I hope to be in their seats in future years.

They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just read more

They were moving out of there pretty fast, ... I figured they were up to no good. I was just trying to get out of their way. They hit the back of my car, fishtailed and then they rolled it.

Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every read more

Our biggest hazard out here is packrats. We don't want brush piles to build, so we prune our trees every year near the house.

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate read more

Regulatory modernization would keep states in charge of regulating insurance, but create a set of federal standards that would eliminate price controls and controls over policy forms.

[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according read more

[MISSING MARKO: Backup OT Marko Cavka underwent surgery yesterday to insert a metal plate in his fractured left forearm, according to a source. It wasn't a fractured wrist, as first reported by the team. He will miss eight to 10 weeks. ... Abraham, in his latest comments about his franchise tag/contract dispute, reacted coolly toward the front office.] I came back strictly for my teammates, not for the people upstairs, ... I feel like I've proved myself, but that's not proof for them. I have to work with what they're doing.