March 2010

Vikings keep biodiversity safe

Buried in the permafrost on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean is a vault, which may contain the future of humankind. It doesn’t contain…


Writing rainbow

Daria Salamon, author of the Prairie Bridesmaid, finds that she does her best writing when she starts at 10 p.m. and works away into the…


Fried brains and Sam

As I went in no particular direction, for no particular reason, sifting and sloshing my mass of formless molecules through some kaleidoscope reality, I was…


Conan fever

In a post, with the fitting title “No Bread for the Redhead,” TMZ reported that Conan O’Brien isn’t making any money from his upcoming 30-city…



Upside down

DOWN I’m sick of people thinking that they are better than me and I’m sick of me thinking that I am better than them simply…


The Islamic chronicles

Islamic civilization has been one of humanity’s greatest achievements. Though with a rich history, Islam has been obscured behind a curtain of misunderstandings and misrepresentations….


Chew on this

Martha Street Studio is filled with eye candy. Bacon bookmarks, mock bubble gum modeling clay, “Pollick’s lollipops” and other novelty items that all look good…


Lipstick Traces

Which Spice Girl were you? If you were a female aged seven to 14 in 1996 you probably at least considered it. The Spice Girls…


Lovely Rita

It’s back. Did we think that, just because, in 1983, Michael Caine and Julie Walters did such a memorable job in the movie version of…