By Peter Manseau When Pope Benedict XVI visited Auschwitz in 2006, the prayer service he led began with the words “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?” Words from the Psalms, they no doubt had been uttered within the prison gates before, by Jews praying as Jews in their final day...

Fleurville’s Re-Run Hana Diaper Bag Every March and October, children’s apparel companies fill Jacob Javitz Convention Center in NYC for the ENK Children’s Club tradeshows to preview the fashions that will stock stores six months later. A smaller offshoot, Bubble New York, features...

By Thoreau Another winter quarter, another Force Concepts Inventory (FCI), a standard test of knowledge in classical mechanics.  Last year I got a normalized gain of 25% on the FCI, a way of measuring how much they improved relative to how much they could have improved.  That number came from some...

Whoa hey how’d the Entire News Media miss this one? Especially considering the main things we all jabber about, these days, are stock prices and whatever Jon Stewart said about Jim Cramer …. Anyway, get out your duct tape because a certified American Nazi was building a “dirty bomb...

Our boy The 1/3 turned us on to this important happening in June. A bunch of bands that longtime Buzzgrinder readers will recognize and appreciate are reuniting for a good cause. I just went ahead and re-posted the entire blog entry from The Huntingtons about the event. Saturday, June 13, 2009 at Ci...

energy, IT, Analysis Gregory T. Huang wrote: “If you’re a technology junkie, cleantech is the candy store for you,” said Byron McCann, co-founder and managing partner of Seattle-based Ascent Partners, an investment bank that advises cleantech and software entrepreneurs. McCann, who...

Biotech, cancer, Inflammation Luke Timmerman wrote: Some members of the band that pumped out a one-hit wonder at Icos are getting back together to see if they can produce at least one more hit at Seattle-based Calistoga Pharmaceuticals. Calistoga has been building up its management team over the pas...

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In the ninth episode of the second season of "Sex and the City," one young male professional has had enough of being judged - and in some cases, rejected - by women because of his uncircumcised penis. He chooses to undergo circumcision as an adult....

Our narratives aside, the truth is hard to hide. It always seeks the light, to level out. The story that I’ve got, the characters and plot, the mortar and the blocks I’ve leveled out. It’s complicated in retrospect to see what it’s about. It’s hard to hate it, the means...