A Brown University research team has discovered something in the brain that could serve as a target for future autism and mental retardation treatments. read more...

we’ve received several copies of this instructive diagram, which the helpful illustrators of graph jam have made available to coffee watchdogs the world over. seeing people print their passive-aggressive flow charts off the internet makes our resident nerd, eric, sentimental for simpler times....

Heard a tune on the radio (perhaps on Brown's station?) that was by a brand new artist, and I really, REALLY liked it. So grasping at this straw of fooling myself into thinking I'm not totally ancient and unhip, I downloaded it and am regularly enjoying it. It's a tune called "Electric Feel" by a ba...

Daily TIPs, energy, Web Neil Savage wrote: Is Ethanol Policy Counterproductive? Citing a pair of wire stories, Salon asks whether current policies to promote the production of ethanol amount to bad economics. Federal ethanol mandates are driving up the price of corn, which makes it hard to make a pr...

Good question. To be honest, I was starting to put the paper in my rearview mirror long before I was officially cut from it. I'd sent resumes out online a few months before but had gotten pretty lazy about it as of late, thinking that I just might escape being laid off. After all, M.S. the Editor ha...

Early in President Bush's second term, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened a series of strategy sessions on how to persuade North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons programs. One key official, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, remained largely silent, four participants.....

Early in President Bush's second term, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened a series of strategy sessions on how to persuade North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons programs. One key official, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, remained largely silent, four participant......

Early in President Bush's second term, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice convened a series of strategy sessions on how to persuade North Korea to surrender its nuclear weapons programs. One key official, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher R. Hill, remained largely silent, four participant......

New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman wrote a decent book many years ago and has since made a living by promoting the Iraq War, going on sabbatical, and coming up with useless concepts like these: "the world is flat," "a Lexus is like an olive tree, in that both are on my book cover," and "I used...

Played my gig at Cafe Zog Friday, was a pretty slow night. Was thinking the Phoenix write-up might pull some curious soul or two in, but it was not to be. Oh well. Didn't even bother singing, just played instrumentals all night. Sounded alright to at least one of the six people who dropped in during...