By • Sep 04,2008

Brain Make Fatter

Want to lose weight? Read on. Food for thought: Intellectual activities make people eat more than when just resting, according to a study that sheds new light on brain food....

By • Sep 03,2008

Neither/Nor

Stanley Fish takes on the cant of “academic freedom” in a recent issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education: Is academic freedom a philosophical concept tied to larger concepts of...

By • Sep 03,2008

My condition…

…for approving the bailout plan is that the upper management of the institutions involved have to move into these apartments:

By • Sep 03,2008

The Blame Game

A recurring theme in politics is the “ah-ha, busted” narrative. Recent months have brought us such notable hypocrites as Sen. Larry “marriage protection amendment cosponsor” Craig and Rep. Mark “sex...

By • Sep 03,2008

Too rich

These sentences, from Andrew, are just too rich: The people who should be most incensed by the Palin pick are foreign policy neoconservatives. The selection has made a mockery of...

By • Sep 03,2008

The Diet Wars

Recent challenges to a shaky consensus on nutrition and disease suggest that we need to exercise more skepticism when science and public policy meet.