I've been pretty busy the past few days with teaching and laughing my head off over the Republican presidential candidate promising to clean up W…
Read moreAs regular readers know, yours truly is a former regular contributor to Bon Appetit magazine, and I still keep in touch with the old gang. Here is th…
Read moreAfter a brief stopover in Paris, I will be returning to Boston this weekend to get ready for the new semester at Boston University, where I am teachi…
Read moreFor the next several days I will be blogging (maybe not quite so often, however) from Devon, England, where I am on a semi-vacation. Until I get out…
Read moreShould our Medicare dollars be going to keep old people alive? No, says Slate's " Human Nature" columnist, William Saletan, in a post …
Read moreVélib, the bicycle-sharing system in Paris, is one year old on July 15. There are some 20,000 bicycles and 1500 stations throughout the city. The sys…
Read moreOkay, this may seem funny, but to our family it's serious. Someone is killing pet bunnies in Germany, according to the BBC . Indeed, I was incens…
Read moreAnd here's yet another way the rich are different from you and me: They have more psychiatrists. But according to a feature story in today's…
Read moreOkay, the other day this blog had its first ever sports item, today is the first ever cooking item. Before he went into science writing, your blog ho…
Read moreOn Sunday my wife and I walked from where we live in the 11th arrondissement (district) of Paris to the 7th, passing much of historic Paris on the wa…
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