Galileo has many heirs. I don鈥檛 mean biological descendants; rather, some intellectuals see Galileo鈥檚 face in the mirror staring back at them. Freed from the shackles of academia (or simply kicked...
My hairdresser brings me to an isolated room. On the sparsely decorated walls, a framed drawing of the head meridians and a yin-yang symbol representing the Chinese body clock, in which different...
Do you know who invented the electric toaster? If you answered Alan MacMasters, a young Scotsman with high cheekbones and quite a head of hair, you鈥檝e been lied to by Wikipedia.
鈥淏ut where鈥檚 the harm?鈥 we are so often asked. When your baby dies and has to be resuscitated in the emergency room, I鈥檇 say the harm has a Vegas-sized neon arrow above it....