When speaking to my class as a whole, I offer refer to them as "friends." My former colleague, Donna Gosk, suggested it as a replacement to "boys and girls" long…

I was in New Haven last night, performing onstage for the first time in a long time. As part of the International of Arts & Ideas, I competed in a…

Exposure to leaded gasoline lowered the IQ of about half the population of the United States, a new study estimates. The peer-reviewed study, published in the journal Proceedings of the…

This video is 15 minutes long, which can be an eternity on the internet, but it's well worth your time. It's a fascinating look at how the polarization of the…

Every month I report the progress of my yearly goals in order to monitor progress (or the lack thereof) and hold myself accountable.   The following are the result from…

One more thing about Will Smith's assault on Chris Rock at the Oscars: Over the past couple days, I've heard people posit aloud and online that Rock's response could've been…

There's so much to say about Will Smith's physical assault of Chris Rock at the Oscars on Sunday night. Much of it has already been said. I'll simply add this…

George Weasley from the Harry Potter series had his ear blasted off by a curse from a Death Eater, leaving a hole behind where the ear had once been. Less…