Wes Phillips

They get more regular over time.

Slips, stumbles, and verbal blunders—an excerpt from Michael Erard's new book on slips of the tongue. Inspired by the Decider, by the way.

Some food scientists are saying that America's tastebuds aren't becoming more adventurous, they're <A HREF="http://www.boston.com/news/globe/ideas/articles/2007/10/07/some_like_it… out</A> as baby boomers age.

A new research project highlights Archimedes' role in developing calculus.

Is a single gene&mdash;the so-called FOXKP2&mdash;the reason why only humans have language?

Louis Armstrong's last LP was contemporary country music, He was asked if he was making a statement by recording what was then considered white, working class music. Silly question&mdash;Armstrong recorded with Jimmie Rodgers, after all.

On October 4, a federal jury in Duluth, MN found Jammie Thomas liable for copyright infringement, imposing a damages assessment of $220,000 ($9250 for each of 24 songs). It was the first jury trial resulting from the series of lawsuits the recording industry began in September 2003. Since most of those suits were settled out of court (average settlement: $4000) or defaulted, <I>Capitol Records v. Thomas</I> was the rare case to actually go to court and in front of a jury. It was interesting in ways other than its seemingly high damages.