... a growing number of Americans do not believe in the theory of evolution ... religious fundamentalism, inadequate science education, and partisan political maneuvering ... Even Ann Coulter ...
A furious row [over] highly controversial research purporting to demonstrate telepathy and life after death ... "I would rather be descended from an ape than a bishop."
... mind read by a sensor net that monitors brain activity while music is played ... the brains of musically-trained children respond to music in a different way to those of the untrained children, but also that the training improves their memory as well ...
... humans put most of their cerebral cortex to good use, even while dozing.
... ingesting just two poppy seed bagels may produce a positive result for opiates on a drug screen.
... a restraint on free expression we can live with ... taboos on the subject of global warming ...
What am I not supposed to know? ... trafficking in fake science ...
... the nimbus-haired New Yorker reporter ... a pathological fixation on writing in rhetorical questions?
... we have to stick together against the provincialism of the East ... body parts, bad dreams, readouts, breakdowns ...
Kramer, while chief art critic of the Times, was seated next to Woody Allen, who asked Kramer if he felt embarrassed when he ran into artists whose work he had attacked. "No," Kramer retorted, "I expect them to be embarrassed for doing bad work."
[the emergence of GM wine] ... dabbling with high-tech chemical analysis ... tweak the grape juice while it ferments ... "biodynamic" -- a sort of hyper-organic designation that means the vintner relies on such things as lunar cycles and planetary alignment rather than chemistry ... powerful software to generate taste recommendations on how to tweak the wine ... to land top scores from leading critics ...
... a pet stroller, a lot of soul-searching, racks, racks, and more racks; "Rack me!" ... a state of concupiscence ... Eventually, as our possessions become more intertwined with one another, and more objects are devoted to caring for other objects, the human consumer will be cut out of the loop. [Enter here the robot overlords.] The electronic pen will have a relationship with our books and magazines that will not require our input.
Does money matter when it comes to student performance? ... in New York City, 18.5% of families live in poverty ...
... the world's pre-eminent mind sport ... lived up to his reputation by complaining ... pettiness and incompetence splashed across front pages ...
... unconnected sentences, larded with extraneous data in order to give assertions a fact-y weight that suggests truth is being told ... a good book, may be a great one ... reminded me of Jean Renoir: "The real hell of life is that everyone has his reasons."
... a man for whom facts are mere fodder for political purposes ... the danger of a one-party state ... when a group of true believers, convinced of the superiority of their own ideas, have unchecked power ...
Hong Kong Wrong in the death of "positive noninterventionism" ...
Is Urban Sprawl an Urban Myth? including Atlanta, Boston, San Francisco ...
