On 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…
Read moreNow for this blog's first ever sports item: The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Los Angeles Angels 1-0 yesterday even though they had a no-hitter pi…
Read moreThis week's "Straight No Chaser" podcast from the always terrific Jeffrey Siegel features a preview of acts from this weekend's Sa…
Read moreThis week on Bloggingheads.tv, my friend and colleague Carl Zimmer, one of America's top science writers and author of the new book " Microc…
Read moreThis is from the Culture Project in New York City, I've been on their mailing list since I saw George Packer's play "Betrayed" this…
Read moreThere's been a lot in the news lately about Stonehenge, the iconic, 5000 year old prehistoric monument in southern England. The June issue of Nat…
Read moreAs media analysts have noted , the Iraq war has been falling off the front pages lately, no doubt a combination of apathy, "war fatigue" (a…
Read moreHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH The war on teen terror The Bush administration's…
Read moreThe recent reports that Barack Obama is distancing himself from Muslims are detailed enough to be taken seriously, and to be the subject of serious …
Read moreApparently some citizens of San Francisco are putting a measure on the ballot that would change the name of their award-winning sewage treatment plan…
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