iPhone Users Do Not Have More Sex In case you were wondering, what publicists do all day is think up the kind of shit OK Cupid...
Britain’s Outgoing Top Doc Talks Drug Legalization The outgoing head of the UK’s Royal College of Physicians, Professor Sir Ian Gilmore, told 25,000 RCP Members in...
Prenatal Dexamethasone and Gender Engineering Shari Roan, writing in today’s LA Times, discusses treatment with the steroid dexamethasone offered to women who find out...
The Thing About Autism What exactly constitutes autism and what causes it has been the subject of heated debate in the last few...
Watching Paint Dry Apparently trying to prove that scientists are as fascinating as World War II veterans taking some time off from...
Russian Fire Fetishism and Fire-Fighting Tanks As a 430,000-acre series of wildfires burns near Moscow, bathing the city in an acrid, toxic smog and contributing...
Teabaggers Add Cream to Wikileaks Scandal, Make it Mildly Gayer The front page of the New York Times today has a story about Pfc. Bradley Manning, the reputed source...
The Curious Fate of the Muffin Man Yesterday’s New York Times ran a story on the plight of former Bimbo executive Chris Botticella. Get your mind...
Mr. Twister, the Meter-Feeding Clown So the story goes this way. About fifteen years ago there’s this clown in Santa Cruz, okay? Okay, back...
Do You Need an Exorcism? Take the Quiz! Imagine my chagrin this morning when I saw perched ominously atop my usual stack of Gmails complaining about my...