Wes Phillips

Andrew Davidhazy, professor of Imaging and Photographic Technology at RIT, has spent a lifetime taking extremely high-speed photos of interesting phenomena like water dripping and stuff blowing up real good. Here's a gallery of his work.

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.

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.

Which parts of the human body could you design better?

Maybe we need a new word for over-advertising results.

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.

Jeremy Paxman argues that the last lines of "Dulce et Decorum Est" were not meant cynically.