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The Cost of Intelligence
In Tuesday's Science Times, Carl Zimmer grants us access to scientists who are asking the question, "If it's so great to be smart, why have most...
Read & DiscussN.C. and Indiana Primaries
As we suspected last night, Barack Obama does in fact roll in North Carolina-winning 56-42, and extending his delegate lead despite a two-point...
Read & DiscussDisturbing "Art" Weekly Roundup
We're a little behind with these, but we think they're more impressively disgusting when aggregated:*A Costa Rican artist shuttles a starving dog...
Read & DiscussChelsea in NC
While Hillary Clinton spent the morning in Pennsylvania duking it out with Barack Obama over today's critical 158 delegates, daughter Chelsea...
Read & DiscussGreen Is Good
Another mainstream magazine-this time, The New York Times Magazine-released its "Green" issue this weekend, but yet again, multitudes of the...
Read & DiscussGeorge Lois Covers at MoMA
Next Friday, New York's Museum of Modern Art will open "George Lois: The Esquire Covers," a year-long exhibit honoring the storied magazine's...
Read & DiscussPhilly Debate: Candidates Forced To Explain Away Slip-ups
Last night's Democratic debate in Philadelphia's National Constitution Center featured moderators Charles Gibson and George Stephanopolous playing...
Read & DiscussHooray Tax Day!
Just kidding. Unless you're you're a tax adviser (congrats, take a vacation), April 15 sucks. But over at Salon, they're making future Tax Days a...
Read & DiscussPlanet's Most Published Author?
Philip M. Parker-the self-proclaimed "most published author in the history of the planet"-has officially "written" 200,000 books, and makes money...
Read & DiscussObama's Muse-ings
In Sunday's New York Times Magazine, Rob Walker aggregated the vast amount of art inspired by Barack Obama and his campaign toward "change."...
Read & DiscussAncient Hairless Magical Mexican Dogs Still Healing?
The Xoloitzcuintli, a breed of ancient Mexican dog-of which half are oddly un-furred-were once revered by the Aztecs for their supposed healing...
Read & DiscussMad Scientists
Twenty percent of scientific-community respondents to a new Nature survey admitted to using neuroenhancers like Ritalin and Provigil. The poll...
Read & DiscussKatie Couric and CBS to Split?
Doomed-from-the-start Evening News anchor Katie Couric and her record-low ratings may be parting ways with CBS well before the expiration of her...
Read & DiscussRank And File
The extraordinarily popular, but often criticized, U.S. News and World Report college rankings may be on the verge of a makeover. The higher-ed...
Read & DiscussGreen Gasoline
The new cover article of Chemistry & Sustainability, Energy & Materials (don't you all subscribe?) details the first direct conversion of plant...
Read & DiscussOlympic Protest Update: Paris Demonstrations
After one BBC reporter jinxes the whole affair by predicting the chance of a protester getting near the Olympic torch to be "pretty...
Read & DiscussTop Clinton Aide Steps Down
Hillary Clinton's chief political strategist, Mark Penn-whom many considered to be the Democratic candidate's Karl Rove (though no one except...
Read & DiscussNo More Author Advances?
The state of this country doesn't seem so good if you're judging by this morning's leading news: 80,000 jobs lost in the month of March, 81% of...
Read & DiscussRemembering MLK's Assassination
On April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot and killed in Memphis. To mark the 40th anniversary of the catastrophic assassination, Time has...
Read & DiscussPeabody Awards Announced
Thirty-five recipients of George Foster Peabody Awards for broadcasting excellence in news and entertainment-administered by the University of...
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