The healthy heavyweight
The Internet is full of dietary secrets — the ancient rule that could leave you 10 pounds lighter or the food you should be eating…
March 2010
Cosmologists know nothing
Science was proved fallible once again, when NASA’s gamma ray telescope made a startling discovery: galaxies don’t emit as much gamma rays as was previously…
Small talk
Small talk is a beast with many forms. There’s small talk with friends which would likely progress into more if you weren’t in a rush…
In soviet russia, plant eat you
Plants get a bum rap for being lazy do-nothings who are content to bask in the sun all day if you let them. Furthermore, a…
Your inner shark, tadpole, jellyfish . . .
As a trained paleontologist and professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, Neil Shubin discovered that by using comparative anatomy he could teach human…
Vile weed no longer
Dandelions, arguably the most annoying plant any gardener will come across (second only to stinging nettle). They are like the mosquitoes of the plant world….
World War 1.5
To make art is at once challenging and satisfying, like completing a puzzle. One of life’s great pleasures is to stand back and look at…
Frankly my dear, Mikuska gives a damn
Artist Frank Mikuska describes his teenage self as a “natural delinquent.” His older brother had been killed while working at an electricity company in Winnipeg,…
Musical memory memory
I shut out all the lights, sat down behind my desk, the little one facing the window in the far corner of the room, and…
Musical memory memory memory
Drop-jawed and dead-eyed, they sat soundless, and stared. It was employee #3263827, the “Arts Editor,” who spoke first, in a halting voice. “Do you have…