Magnificent Octopus

Salon today begins biweekly reviews of new science fiction and fantasy books. Starting with The Zenith Angle , by Bruce Sterling. For...

Dan Engber recaps the Decade of the Brain and the plethora of brain–mind books it spawned: Indeed, when any work of popular neuroscience...

Where did it come from, exactly, this new insistence that parents be always present at their children's sporting events, and even at the...

Steve Hartman took a "witty" look at corrections on 60 Minutes II this evening. Here’s another from The Wall Street Journal. A...

Bookninja points to an article that tangentially raises some really interesting questions on the relationship between art and parenthood. ...

Helena was a squirmy baby. Now we've achieved a whole new level of squirminess. Toddler. One who toddles. To toddle. Toddling. Us...

Sesame Street has a new resident muppet: drawlin', plain-talkin', straight-shootin' talk-show host Dr Feel (read: McGraw). He f...

Helena's a genius. I spent a couple hours yesterday filling out forms, calculating our income tax. The calculator goes missing from the ...

Return of the Reluctant threw it out there: Will someone explain why Auster's the shit? Will someone tell me why this Peter Stillman...

Maud Newton quotes an article from the London Times about Paul Auster: He confides that this year's US election has whipped him up ...

After a busy morning of engineering (Helena constructed a tower of five Lego blocks) and reorganization (Helena relocated all the pairs of p...

Cup of Chicha points to commentary on the Lemony Snicket movie trailer . I, too, am giddy with anticipation. The egregious miscastin...

I've noticed that a number of people are arriving at this blog via All Consuming . All Consuming is a website that visits recently up...

Sitting at the kitchen table, Helena points out the window at the dogs in the park across the street and starts barking. We set off for t...

It's Neal Stephenson day at Salon. And pretty much everywhere. Confusion has just come out, and I haven't even read Quicksilver ...

Since I started blogging in part to record for posterity Helena's development, I should get on with it: Helena is simply magical. 17 ...

Helena spent part of the weekend at my mother-in-law's. I wasn't too keen on the arrangement at first, but it's just as well, cu...

Distributed Proofreaders was founded in 2000 to support the digitization of Public Domain books. You too can contribute to Project Gute...

An article in The Washington Post this weekend discusses the lack of clinical evidence for the efficacy of antidepressants in children. ...