Sweet sassy molassy! What if Stan Lee had written <I>The Watchmen</I> instead of Alan Moore? It would have been sassier! Slangy-er! And America might well be experiencing an exclamation point shortage!

J.B.S. Haldane isn't a household name here in the US, but he ought to be. This essay is one of his best.

Of course he was. Humor is how people cope with horror.

Great article on ape cognition, but even if it wasn't, how could I resist a title like that?

Scientists agree that humans are stimulated by music in the same ways as we are by sex and food. So now for the big question: How come?

Okay article, but it has a fabulous photograph of Ronnie Wood accompanying his grandmother.

While you might have been paying attention to other matters, there has been a quiet revolution in affordable recording technology. What if I told you that I've been making pure Direct Stream Digital (DSD), SACD-quality two-channel recordings using equipment that, from soup to nuts, costs less than $6000? Read on.