The Biggest Thing in Physics
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."
Wes Phillips
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Blind Testing
Jonah Lehrer has been promoting his new book Proust Was a Neuroscientist, 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.
Intelligent Design?
Which parts of the human body could you design better?
Marjan Satrapi
My wife gave me a copy of The">http://www.randomhouse.com/pantheon/graphicnovels/catalog/display.pperl… Complete Persepolis 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.
Closing Your Eyes to Listen to Music
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.
Snake Oil
Maybe we need a new word for over-advertising results.
The Real Wilfred Owen
Jeremy Paxman argues that the last lines of "Dulce et Decorum Est" were not meant cynically.
New Crit on Popular Music
Wow, Mark Steyn is even crankier than I am.
To Hell and Back
Jay Allen Sanford describes his horrifying descent into crack addiction and homelessness. It's not a pretty story, except that he did make it back.
We Are the Cyclists
Hat tip to Mark Fleischmann.