One of the strangest aspects of the moral panic over fat in our culture is the bizarre concept that having a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 is "normal." It certainly isn't normal in the standard statistical sense of the word (only about a third of...
Author: Paul Campos
Cheap Abe Simpson humor aside, one issue that the media seem to be treating with extreme delicacy so far is McCain's age. It of course is a legitimate concern, given.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a presidential candidate's list of top ten favorite songs, published in a magazine aimed at self-identified young urban hipsters, will be an essentially.
But the front page of the NY Times sure looks like Chapter One of a Tom Clancy novel right now.It's just that under the present circumstances the idea of this guy running for president while sounding like a character in a Tom Clancy novel is...
I recently saw Eric Steel's 2006 documentary film The Bridge, about people who commit suicide by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. Steel got permission from local authorities to set.
My friend Steve is an atmospheric scientist and a hardcore baseball fan. He's devised an ingenious simulation, in which he predicts the probable outcome of the remainder of a baseball.
"Some" would have seen it as a Secret Terrorist Gesture, while more sober-minded chin-scratchers would have taken it as evidence that Obama is too much of a foreigner to understand our customs and traditions.Of course on the left this is seen as yet further confirmation...
. . . donate Adam Dunn to Arizona for a petrified starfish and two pre-owned copies of The Transformed Man.Dunn is a free agent in six weeks, so if the.
My guess would be . . . Munich, 1938!What do I win?BTW it would be difficult to top this phrase for some sort of Neo-Con Unselfconscious Irony Award: "Fanatics aren’t.
I was an Edwards supporter early on, so I find this particularly disturbing. In an ideal world I agree this would be a private affair in every sense, but did he really think he could get away with this while running for president? And did...
In the comments to the Hiroshima thread below, djw asks an excellent question, in response to justifications for dropping the bomb on Japan because doing so arguably saved many more.
Picasso's painting memorializes the bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War that killed several hundred civilians. At the time the incident shocked the world. Eight years later,.