You wouldn’t believe it
July 9, 2012

Bath Salts Evaporate
July 2, 2012

Brain rot
June 25, 2012

Net gain for freedom
June 18, 2012

The Worm Turns                                                         
June 11, 2012
 
Getting Schooled
June 4, 2012

Comparative advantage
May 28, 2012

Brewing Storm
May 21, 2012

You are what you tweet
May 7, 2012

April 30, 2012

Mining the middle ground
April 23, 2012

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March 19, 2012

March 12, 2012

Feb 27, 2012

New shade of hysteria
February 20, 2012

Is Starbucks really the new saloon of the urban West, where hoodlums and varmints knock back java and start fights?
February 13, 2012

Will Facebook's IPO turn Mark Zuckerberg into the most powerful media baron the world has ever seen?
February 7, 2012

Not kidding about freedom: Why kids reject healthier school food
January 30, 2012

The political horse race is like a 19th century Russian novel - extreme wealth, intimations of lunacy, revolution
January 23, 2012

Finally, a new national drug scare for politicians to fulminate over: The rise of the super painkillers!
January 16, 2012

News you can use
To be media savvy in the 21st century, you need to treat news like booze.
December 19, 2011

Best and brightest
The ideas that lit up 2011.
December 12, 2011

Revolting for nothing
As Yoda might say, a writer seeks not parliamentary democracy (boring, it is); a writer seeks revolution. And boy – like  a bunch of Jedi Knights on crack – did writers scramble to occupy the first acceptably cool revolutionary moment since the Black Panthers.
December 5, 2011

Smoke in their eyes
Should all smoking in cars be banned? Hot dogs be redesigned? Spring break be reformed?
November 28, 2011

Why so spurious?
Geekspotting: a tragic tale of nerds and their love of narcotics (or maybe not)
November 21, 2011

The generation the media loved to hate takes its revenge: happiness
November 14, 2011

Science of hypocrisy
Are Americans so much dumber than Brits and Europeans when it comes to science
November 7, 2011

The great food fight
Why "Big Public Health's" war on "Big Food" will only destroy the public's trust in science
October 31, 2011

Accepting the medicine          
October 24, 2011

Haves and haven’t a clues
Why a progressive economist thinks the 1 percent rhetoric is "nuts."
October 17, 2011

Mind of a maker
On Steve Jobs and thinking by making
October 10, 2011

The Current Trends Con
Is the WHO going to screw up obesity like the UN screwed up global warming
September 19, 2011

Pure to a fault
Is cleanliness contra nature? Rob Dunn's brilliantly argued "The Wildlife of Our Bodies" calls for an evolution-inspired revolution in health and ecology
September 12, 2011

The kids are alright
How Internet porn, violent TV and video games made better American kids
September 6, 2011

Britain's blame game
The middle class left's alignment with the underclass is the gift that will keep on giving to the right.
August 29, 2011

Remixing vs Romanticism: A comedian and a pop critic wonder whether digital culture is counter revolutionary and information has become the new opium of the masses.
August 22, 2011

This is London?
Among the thugs: How an American diagnosed Britain's cancerous violence
August 10, 2011

A Mighty Wind
The government is allowing "Big Wind" to write its own environmental impact rules. But what's good for the goose is that BP Alternative Energy and BP Petroleum should each be held to the same wildlife laws.
August 8, 2011

The Class War on Fat
Despite what the media says, you can't tax away obesity.
August 1, 2011

Not So Scientific
How can it be dangerous to drive after one drink but not after two? Because journalists and scientists focus on different kinds of error.
July 25, 2011

I write, therefore I am
Did typing change the way Nietzsche thought? The cognitive risks of giving up handwriting.
July 18, 2011

Mobile insecurity
Phone phreaking was all the rage in the 1970s; but now with 5 billion mobile devices, criminals are going to phreak out.
July 12, 2011

In defense of gaming
Misadventures with Proust and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare; in search of things to shoot.
July 4, 2011

The new anarchists
Are hackers pushing us towards liberty or anarchy?
June 28, 2011

Forbidden fruit-frenzy
Public health fearmongers have set their sights on apples and spinach.
June 21, 2011

Speed journalism
Is Twitter undermining our ability to enjoy stories? James Stewart on the pros and cons of speed journalism.
June 13, 2011

The Italian job
Sen Coburn missed an opportunity to search out real scandal in scientific research funding.
June 6, 2011

A matter of degrees
College is a great investment, says study by college: Why we need a little skepticism.
May 30, 2011

"Twitillation"
Are we uncovering private vice or eroding public virtue? What Jeremy Clarkson and Dominique Strauss Kahn tell us about the democratization of gossip mongering.
May 23, 2011

Fear in a can
The media has doggedly ignored the scientific consensus on BPA in favor of a cascade of scare stories from the left; this isn't just undermining science, it's a betrayal for the many liberal scientists engaged in risk assessment
May 16, 2011

Osama bin Elvis
Perhaps never in world history has such an important event, so simple to verify, turned into a lie so quickly.
May 9, 2011

Rights go down the hatch
Why public health experts believe Prohibition was a success and why moderate drinking is the enemy.
May 2, 2011

Dioxin causes insanity
Why the National Academy of Science thinks the EPA is nuts: Agency proposal turns breastfeeding into a cancer risk for babies.
April 18, 2011

World of discovery
A remarkable study by Britain's Royal Society showing a new age of Enlightenment spreading around the world through scientific research. Not only is Iran the fastest-growing producer of scientific research in the world, American, Iranian, Israeli and Palestinian Authority researchers are partnering up.
April 11, 2011

Tech it or leave it
Would mobile technology have stopped the Holocaust? After Egypt and Tunisia Human Rights Watch thinks so; but the Nazis embrace of technology – especially radio – offers a much darker parallel for the Middle East.
April 4, 2011

War's brutal lesson
Do the rogue activities and the drug use of “kill team” suggest a loss of discipline similar to that in Vietnam? Or should we, after 10 years of war, be surprised that there aren’t more atrocities and worse?
March 29, 2011

Malignant Politics
“When I saw this new report,” said Sir Richard Peto, “I thought, ‘Poor President Obama, he deserves better advice.’” The world's greatest statistician on how to mislead the President.
March 21, 2011

Fading like Printer's Ink
Few in 'new media' notice the death of an old pro, David Broder; this is no country for old newsmen.
March 15, 2011

Pop a Tab and Pour a Lie
How much do journalists love taxes and hate soda? Lots, it would appear.
March 7, 2011

A Price on Suffering
In a world of finite health resources, we are not infinitely valuable to anyone but ourselves. So how much is it worth to alleviate the suffering of a few people?
March 7, 2011

Googlism
Google's Eric Schmidt believes that when the masses have control of the means of information they will control the means of production. Ka-ching! But is this what the history of the knowledge economy really shows?
February 21, 2011.

Salad Haze
Democrat dreams of regulation produce monsters: $3 million to bring a $5 dollar eye shadow to market – but you can forget about a lettuce wrap or a carrot spritzer.
February 14, 2011.

Network Follies
A hundred years of network communications theory was ignored in the 1990s; now, we’re screwed. Why we need to build a better Internet.
February 7, 2011.