"I've Never Got Over It"
Harry Patch, the last survivor of Passchendaele, did something 500,000 of his mates didn't: He survived the three months of carnage. He's the last WWI Tommy.
Wes Phillips
Virtual Mice Brains
"A multi-institutional consortium including Duke University has created startlingly crisp 3-D microscopic views of tiny mouse brains—unveiled layer by layer—by extending the capabilities of conventional magnetic resonance imaging."
Unleash the Badgers!
Is this the perfect news story or what?
Sentence Sensibility
The New York Times has a dating column? The things you miss if you don't buy the Sunday Getting & Having edition.
I Have Suspected This For Years
Some music really does suck—um, create a differential affect gap.
Hitchcock's America
It was a fascinating place—but it was his. Other than comic books, a Hitchcock film is the only place where it makes sense for a wrongfully accused man to have to catch the real villian. Yet, the plots were never the point, were they?
Doug Marlette
I loved Doug Marlette. His political cartoons were so sharp that I almost always laughed out loud—even when he slaughtered some of my sacred cows. I suppose that's one of the signs of really good political humor, since all of us can laugh at the other side's foibles.
Santa Claus and Truth
"You better not lie," the song tells us, but flying reindeer and a benevolent fat guy in a red suit is hardly an advertisement for truthiness.
The World's Most Dangerous Element
A nuclear physicist reviews Plutonium: A History of the World's Most Dangerous Element, arguing that understanding the element could help us construct a rational policy for dealing with its dangers.
Space Invaders—Live
Someday I'll grow up, but until then I find this hilarious.
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