In the new study of brain activity, volunteers silently read phrases describing movements involving one of three body parts. All of the phrases activated movement-related regions in the left frontal cortex—presumably the ones responsible for moving the body part in question.

Richard Dyer's valedictory column for <I>The Boston Globe</I> is surprisingly upbeat.

"DRM is a technical device, but it's being used in an all-embracing sense. It can't be circumvented for disabled access or preservation, and the technology doesn't expire (as traditional copyright does). In effect, it's overriding exceptions to copyright law,"said Lynne Brindley, chief executive of the British Library.

What I've been missing lately is music. And possibly alcohol, <a href="http://blog.stereophile.com/stephenmejias/091906reddening/">thinks Buddha</a>.

This just in: Jerome Harris dropped me a line announcing a concert tour with Bill Frisell, Jack DeJohnette, and Ben Surman. Unfortunately, it won't be playing anywhere <I>I</I> can go see them, but if you're lucky, you can catch one of these dates.

Ten years ago, John Horgan wrote <I>The End of Science</I>, arguing that scientists had already solved most of the big mysteries of the universe, Has a decade of scientific progress tempered that belief?

Bill Thompson explains how DRM supersedes copyright law and chills creativity.

Mark Mortimer's review of <I>Einstein and the Old One</I> makes an interesting point&mdash;just because we "know" stuff our ancestors didn't doesn't actually make us smarter. We "know" without comprehending.