Diverse perspectives on science and medicine
Writing is a hell of a way to make a living. It only seems easy to those who haven’t tried it. I’ve somehow managed to survive that way for the past 20 years or so
To mark Steve Silberman’s winning of the 2015 Samuel Johnson book prize, UK’s top prize for non-fiction and the first science book to be so honored, we’re reposting Silberman’s 2011 NeuroTribes blog post honoring educators. In this post, he asks
[Originally posted on NeuroTribes on Oct 28, 2011] One reason I was looking forward to reading Walter Isaacson’s new biography of Steve Jobs was my hope that, as a sharp-eyed reporter, Isaacson would probe to
“I have this rather freakish gift of seeing letters in color,” novelist Vladimir Nabokov told a BBC interviewer in 1962. “It’s called color hearing. Perhaps one in a thousand has that.” The Russian-born author of
Point, click. The gestures and metaphors of icon-driven computing feel so natural and effortless to us now, it seems strange to recall navigating in the digital world any other way. Until Apple’s debut of the Macintosh
In November of 1966, the poet Allen Ginsberg made a modest proposal to a room full of Unitarian ministers in Boston. “Everybody who hears my voice try the chemical LSD at least once,” he intoned.
The playful symmetry of fin-shaped sculptures on grass. Sun bright on ivory petals framed in blue water and sky, or exploding through a lacy armature of branches. Seattle-based photographer Forrest Sargent says that he uses
Acting, as an old saying goes, is the art of living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. For TV actors like Ken Baumann — the prodigious 21-year-old actor/writer who plays the gangly, heartbreakingly earnest teen heartthrob Ben
On a hot August night on the Lower East Side in 1988, poet Allen Ginsberg stepped out of a cab and into a riot. Tensions simmering between police and squatters in Tompkins Square Park had