For much of my life I had trouble finishing things. I would start on a project, like making a quilt, and devote hours to it. Then I would fi...

Women are cutting off their small toes so they can wear stiletto heels. This is insane. Enough said! The American Podiatric Medical Associa...

The perpetrator of the latest American mass shooting—at the elementary school in Newton Connecticut—also killed himself and his mother. In a...

Last night I watched James Cameron’s Titanic . One of the twists of the film’s story is that Jack, the protagonist, was not supposed to be o...

In an earlier blog post I wrote about the “ umwelt ,” the individual view of the world created by a creature’s unique physiological abilit...

Filmmaker Fritz Lang is best known today for his masterpiece Metropolis . He made other great films, one of which is entitled M . M is a p...

Think about race. What comes to mind? If you’re like most people, you think of White (Caucasian), Black (Negroid), and Asian (Mongoloid). M...