Mixing perfumes, or "layering" them, as it's said, is like going crazy with pizza toppings-you, of course, being the pizza...more An absence of polish is what leaves the sense that Susan Sontag was not so much writing a journal as observing herself writing a journal... more Abstruse paper is published in scholarly journal. PR guy runs headlong […]
John Hogan looks at the lasting influence of writer and rock musician Ian Svenonius, a prominent member of the bands The Make Up and Nation of Ulysses. […]
"Someone is causing a lot of trouble." Josh Stearns, a reporter who has covered the Occupy movement extensively, asks, "Why is this children's book teaching my kid about SWAT vehicles and Riot Control practices?" From his blog post: Visiting the local library yesterday my son picked out a book all about police. I was stunned […]
Winston Hide, is an associate professor of bioinformatics and computational biology at the Harvard School of Public Health. He was also -- until recently -- the associate editor of the prestigious (and expensive!) Elsevier journal Genomics. In a column in The Guardian, he explains why he resigned from Genomics: people are dying because scientists in […]
U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued a preliminary injunction against the clause in the National Defense Authorization Act that gave the administration the power to arrest people and hold them indefinitely, without a trial, if they were believed to support terrorism. She dismissed the government's arguments in support of the clause (NDAA §10 […]