I don't know about you, but I can't do a stitch of work unless there is music playing. There are lots of Doo Wop sites on the Web, but here i…
Read moreIt's Science Friday and I've got little to show today, although I did write about early millet farming in China yesterday and there's a …
Read moreMy friend and colleague Greg Critser has an opinion piece with this title in today's Los Angeles Times . Greg makes some important points about…
Read moreToday on Science 's online news service, ScienceNOW, I write about two papers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reporting …
Read moreThis is great, the federal government is going to offload all those toxic assets we keep reading about. I'm figuring, since they are worth so li…
Read moreProbably not, and I doubt that I have to prompt many visitors to this blog to read Frank Rich's column, but today's installment makes me won…
Read moreThat's the headline of an online McClatchy Newspapers story by Cliff Churgin . This is a followup to testimony by Israel soldiers who "serve…
Read moreContinuing with Science Friday: In today's print issue of Science , I also report on a paper by Dorian Fuller of Universal College London and Ch…
Read moreIt's Science Friday, and what better way to end the week than with a musical interlude--musical research interlude, that is. Today in Science …
Read moreThe Israeli daily Ha'aretz has begun publishing an explosive series of articles based on testimony from Israeli soldiers about the brutal killi…
Read moreA friend tipped me off to a story about cassoulet , the great southwestern French dish, in Slate , by Katherine Lanpher. The piece is pretty well inf…
Read moreSorry, I just had to get that out of my system. But how else to respond to the protests of Republicans , who have banded together to try to defeat ev…
Read moreAs we all know by now, the Bush administration lied the United States into a war of choice in Iraq. Many Americans were hoodwinked into believing the…
Read moreThe Los Angeles Times Opinion page today carries a must-read piece by former Times staffer Allan Jalon about a smear the paper printed back in 197…
Read moreTalking Points Memo does us the service of reproducing Madoff's statement to the court after pleading guilty to investment fraud. It's worth…
Read moreIt looks like Madoff has a good chance of being sentenced to the slammer for what will probably end up being the rest of his life tomorrow. At least,…
Read moreAccording to today's Los Angeles Times : The Department of Managed Health Care declines to require carriers to pay for applied behavior analysis…
Read moreHumans are mental time travelers: We remember what we thought and felt in the past, and we anticipate what we might be thinking and feeling in the fu…
Read moreI think I have a pretty good idea about who is going to win a Pulitzer Prize for journalism this year. That would be Gene Weingarten, whose story a…
Read moreI see that the Vatican has endorsed the excommunication of the mother and doctors of a 9-year-old girl who had an abortion in Brazil after being rap…
Read moreAs many readers know, the most astute and principled commentator on the "war on terror" efforts of both the Bush and Obama adminstrations, …
Read moreEvery Friday, whenever possible, we will be featuring the latest scientific news. Here's this week's installment. Expert On Anteaters Wasted …
Read moreThis is a short animated film, called " Closed Zone ," by Yoni Goodman , director of animation for Ari Folman's "Waltz with Bash…
Read moreFrom time to time, we've had discussions on this blog's Comments section about whether or not President Barack Obama should be directly criti…
Read moreA report by the Israeli group Peace Now , based on Israeli government documents, concludes that the Ministry of Construction and Housing is planning…
Read moreAs the death toll of U.S. soldiers in Iraq falls, it is rising among GI's serving in Afghanistan (and also among Afghan civilians.) But the names…
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