Wes Phillips

I like Adam Baratz's essay limning similarities between Robert Crumb and Frank Zappa.

Why live through it? Steven Winn saves you the trouble by looking back at our future.

Another breakthrough in mapping the brain. I'm thinking that one day we'll start to understand how it works, but at least now I know which part of my brain I'm thinking that with.

Donald M. Murray died on Saturday, December 30. On Friday, he filed his last column. The Boston Globe ran his final column today.

Robert L. Jamieson, Jr. took a reader's dare to spend some time in Muslim countries and "see how they live over there." It didn't have the expected result.

You've got to love people with too much spare time on their hands. At least, I love this.

"One does not inhale vodka's bouquet, but one may use vodka to sterilize a wound on the knee, as familiar a sight to the serious vodka drinker as the shot glass and the handful of ibuprofen."