Wes Phillips

It's Monday, I have a Jon Carroll column that discusses a new book on the differences between men and women, and it reveals the secret to stimulating a "major dopamine and oxytocin rush, which is the biggest, fattest neurological reward you can get outside of an orgasm." So how could I not link to it?

The Age profiles Dava Sobel, author of Longitude (very highly recommended), Galileo's Daughter (ditto), and now Planets.

Okay, not a pop quiz, but a test of your ability to differentiate the famous musicians from the unknowns.

Huckleberry continues his lie-down strike, protesting his exclusion from the air-conditioned bedroom.

French researchers have constructed "supercapacitors" from burnt-to-a-crisp seaweed.

Has Toxoplasma gondii affected human culture? Maybe so, claims Kevin Lafferty. Toxoplasma guru Karl Zimmer points us toward Lafferty's just published paper and tells us what to look for.

Feel confused by the pace of scientific progress? Ah grasshopper, that is but the first step on the path to enlightenment.