Today I published a story I’ve been working on, off and on, for exactly two years. “What Can We Learn When a Clinical Trial is Stopped” now on...
A Bewildering Crash. Philip Gourevitch at The New Yorker. Just as the brevity of the flight, and the apparent spontaneity of the captain’s decision to leave the...
Today’s Nobel Prize in Medicine and Physiology went to a trio of researchers who figured out the basis of how the brain tracks and manages space, a task t...
Women in tech get harassed for all sorts of idiotic reasons, mainly because the world, and perhaps tech in particular, seems overstuffed with misogynist creeps....
As David Denby notes in a satisfying review, “A Most Wanted Man,” made from the John le Carre film of the same title, makes an apt goodbye from Philip Seymour H...
My journalist friend and colleague David Goodman had me on his radio show “The Vermont Conversation” this past Wednesday, over at WDEV’s fine ...
Depressing news you can use. Or possibly delight in, depending. From Neuroskeptic: An interesting study just published examines the rates of clinical depression...
There’s been a fair flap lately about John Horgan’s argument that optogenetics and its potential have been overhyped by both scientists and some jou...
[Ed note: Originally posted March 2012. See note at bottom.] In 1864, in a move crucial to winning the Civil War, William Tecumseh Sherman led his army of some ...
This post, originally published 14 September, 2010, examines how genes and culture can apparently shape one another’s development and expression — a topi...