“Life,” my brother-in-law tells me, “is 90 percent maintenance.” I’ve no complaints about my husband’s chore contribution in our marriage. Our “dreariness index” as I call it seems fair enough. […]
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This serious and thoughtful—and maybe great—film is quite the labor of love. It’s a film about broken families and broken lives made by the father-and-son team of Martin Sheen and Emilio […]
–Guest post by Declan Fahy, AoE Science & Culture correspondent Richard Dawkins guest-edited the Christmas edition of British left-wing politics and culture magazine The New Statesman — and it contains […]
–Guest post by Luis Hestres, Doctoral student at American University. Petitioning the government for policy changes is a practice as old as the republic, and doing so online is a […]
The fascinating billionaire entrepreneur Peter Thiel (a Facebook guy, the PayPal guy etc.) seems to be carrying the day against the educational establishment in answering this question negatively. He’s teamed up […]
In September, in a speech at the Corto e Fieno Film Festival in Italy, award-winning science and environmental filmmaker Larry Engel reflected on the attributes that make for a successful […]
Recent discoveries in the field of neurobiology can tell us much about the causes of the current financial crisis, and how to treat it, says a former UBS exec.
The genetic mutation that drives evolution is random. But here’s a list of some beneficial mutations that are known to exist in human beings
The ground shook violently in L’Aquila, Italy, early in the morning of April 6, 2009, more violently than it had during the tremors the area had been experiencing for months. […]
College in a Nutskull is a wickedly entertaining collection of bloopers from college students’ exam books. It includes this gem of unwitting brilliance about post-millennial marriage: “By being intelligent and […]
College in a Nutskull is a wickedly entertaining collection of bloopers from college students’ exam books. It includes this gem of unwitting brilliance about post-millennial marriage: “By being intelligent and […]
I asked a friend of mine a few months ago how I would know when I had crossed the line with my economic analysis of sex and love to which […]
This semester I am teaching a doctoral seminar on the important questions and trends related to media, technology and democracy. In this post, I introduce several major topics and provide […]
Einstein “finally concluded that time travel might be inherent in his equations,” but dismissed the notion “on physical grounds.”
A $10 million competition to create a mobile device that can diagnose illnesses could threaten to replace doctors in less than a decade.
In his recent essay, “My Life as an Undocumented Immigrant,” star reporter Jose Antonio Vargas recalls being sent to the U.S. at the age of 12 to live with his […]
A number of responses to my post on mental illness and civil rights deserve some further thought. A number of people have pointed to the variance in definitions of mental […]
Abraham Verghese, a professor at the Stanford University School of Medicine, offers surprising reasons for why C.T. scans should not replace the ritual of doctors examining patients’ bodies.
DEAN YEAGER: “Doctor… Venkman. The purpose of science is to serve mankind. You seem to regard science as some kind of dodge… or hustle. Your theories are the worst kind […]
In a technology-based culture, you learn from infancy that truth is what can be counted and measured. That makes it easy to divide any conversation into what you learned (important!) […]
Today, diagnosing a vegetative brain is an uncertain enterprise, but a new way of identifying talk between the frontal cortex and other brain regions may shed light on such a devastating disorder.
Area 51 has long been a treasure trove for conspiracy theorists. Now a new book delivers some bombshell claims about the world’s most famous and secretive military installation.
Events over the weekend made clear that Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Salih’s days are numbered.
Scientists can’t definitively say why some cells become cancerous, but an even bigger mystery is why some cancer cells spontaneously regress and even disappear on their own.
The Wikipedia gap I don’t know about you, but when I hire someone, or go to the doctor or the architect or an engineer, I could care less about how […]
Not everyone needs heavy duty pain relief in labor, but a significant percentage of women do. Let’s not make their needs invisible.
A fake pill can make patients feel better, even when they know it’s nothing but inert ingredients, according to a new study where patients knew they were receiving a sugar pill.
Dissertations are difficult things. There are multiple reasons why most folks don’t have one. Here are some words of wisdom that I’ve heard from others and now pass along to […]
[The See/Saw Contest for Japan Continues; see the end of this post]I never met the man or even heard him speak, but hearing that art historian and author Leo Steinbergpassed […]
If you dnate to the relief effort in Japan, you can enter a chance to win this new book about the past and present of Japanese art.