NASA's Kepler spacecraft has discovered a rocky planet in the habitable zone of a star 600 million light years away. Uh, O.K., you might say, and then check your smartphone email for the 311th time today. With Newt Gingrich surging in the polls and Herman Cain's 13-year mistress disclosing that she thought about shopping while having sex with…

My vehicle exists in three dimensions, but I fix it mostly in two. Two days ago, I noticed the climate-control fan in the white 2002 Town & Country minivan really whooshing away. Like it was trying to fly itself into a newer minivan. Problem was, it was a gorgeous afternoon -- sunny, right around 60, an…