Here's a snippet from the increasingly hypertextual Mickey Kaus : "I don't think the Lehane/Mulholland Arnold-insulted-Arianna...

Ananova reports on a "power sausage" : "Visitors to Germany's famous October Beer Festival will be kept awake this ye...

I left the wards today with a good feeling, recalling the hard work, happy outcomes, and good relationships. I had an urge to stay on after ...

I used to think "early adopters" -- people who use the latest products ahead of everyone else -- were asking for trouble. They pa...

October first is when the national do-not-call registry goes into effect, barring telemarketers from calling pretty much anyone who doesn...

Boston Globe article on new handheld transmitters in UMass-Amherst lecture halls: "To connect with students in vast auditoriums, p...

Andrew Sullivan notes a great email addendum to the Buruma essay : "Some of you may know Albert Hirschman's classic book, 'The ...

Michael Wolff in New York Magazine notes the similarities between Dean's blog and McGovern's direct-mail campaign. Both candidates l...

Here's the first entry in an ongoing feature: wacky screenplay ideas! An armed robber is holding hostages at a mall. The Feds arrive ...

The Times magazine, on the other hand, has a great article on Daniel Gilbert's studies on our ability to predict our happiness (affecti...

I've been reading newspapers regularly now for 12 years. The process began with the Boston Globe comics, then Ask the Globe (on the comi...

There's a report that 9 out of 2000 Parkinson's patients on a dopamine agonist with levodopa engaged in pathological gambling. The r...

Ever since my first outdoor cat, Otis, spent the night outside, I've been wondering about tracking pet whereabouts. Seems like someone e...

Very happy to see new activity in Kim Jong Il (the illmatic)'s Journal . The North Korean "Leader" reprints some transcripts o...

Well, big changes over the last few weeks. Wrapping up the research, the defense, the Week of Loose Ends, and now my first week of clerkship...

Great Op-Art piece in the New York Times about The Real Risks of Summer : "For example, dangers that primarily affect children evoke ...

Glenn Reynolds asks : "Would I like to be smarter? Yes, and I'd be willing to do it via a chip in my brain, or a direct computer in...