Ex-professional football players expect to live with pain, the byproduct of a job well done, says Paul Solotaroff. What they don't expect is the shabby treatment afforded them by the game for which they squandered their good health. And with union representation like Gene Upshaw, who needs hostile team owners to do 'em dirty?
The race to discover the Higgs boson. What's that you say? "It is what determines if a particle can glide along effortlessly like a photon or if it must trudge like a hefty proton."
Busy here in <i>Stereophile</i> HQ. As the salsa blares ("<i>Clavo saca clavo!</i>"), we're happy to be working on Issue Number 1 of Volume 31. That's January 2008. And I just sent the 2007 Article Index to our copy editor, Richard Lehnert. Having compiled this list of every equipment report, column, interview, and feature we've published over the past year, I can confidently say:
Jonah Lehrer has been promoting his new book <I>Proust Was a Neuroscientist</I>, which means I've heard him interviewed on the usual chattering-classes suspects. And every time I hear him, I think I need to read his book.
Which parts of the human body could <I>you</I> design better?
My wife gave me a copy of <A HREF="http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/display.pperl… Complete Persepolis</I></A> for my birthday and I've been devouring it greedily. Satrapi's graphic novel uses a charmingly primitive visual style to tell a horrifying story of growing up in revolutionary Iran.
Scientists say your brain does it for you. Now, I'd like them to reverse the experiment to see if that's why okay home theater can be "good enough," but so-so hi-fi seldom is.
Maybe we need a new word for over-advertising results.
Jeremy Paxman argues that the last lines of "<I>Dulce et Decorum Est</I>" were not meant cynically.
Wow, Mark Steyn is even crankier than I am.