Tag Archives: Science

A light earnestness hangs in the air when Sufjan Stevens sings, like desert air at dusk, warm but not oppressive, dancing not dripping. And though the singer-songwriter’s ambitions are grand — he has composed 90-minute concept albums for The Nine Planets, The 12 Apostles, and The Four Humors, and he …

Too often the cause of anorexia rests in the home, not the pages of a magazine.

...this looks like its the beginning of the end for oil as a source of power in our world.

...no advocate of the there’s a pill for every ill that afflicts you school of medicine...

Rivalries are a mainstay in sports. It’s the nature of the sports and how games are played. One team/player has to win, and so there also must be a loser. There have been many great sports rivalries: Evander Holyfield and Mike Tyson, Boston Red Sex and New York Yankees, Adolf …

Tom Cruise continues his tear through the media machine, promoting his new film War of the Worlds, which opens nationwide tomorrow. When we last spoke of such things he sparred with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer on matters of religion and psychopharmacology, calling psychiatry a “pseudo-science.” He also blathered on …

...the study of genetics and D.N.A. results in answers being postulated to questions of racial characteristics that are making people uncomfortable.

I read over at MSN recently of Tamim Ansary’s (a columnist) list of the 10 greatest inventions. His number one is the mechanical clock. And kudos for that. Not many people realize how important and ingenious time is to both nature and civilization as we know it. I don’t think …

In the regular course of a day we see, hear, taste, and experience countless sensations that our brain’s processes.

Pain is like interest owed to a loan shark. It compounds on a daily level.