Sure you're good at math and building things -- but how will these skills ever help you impress members of the opposite sex? That is the burning question with which so many future Cal Tech students grapple before drifting off... Continue reading

A professor friend of mine sends word that one of his students is drawing caricatures of famous historical figures as eggs. I checked out the student's web site, called "Eggs of History," and found the drawings to be delightful. I'm... Continue reading

When a Detroit minister named Mayowa Lisa Reynolds went to her City Council last summer to complain about malt liquor advertising, she came prepared.The minister had conducted a survey in which she found a Colt .45 billboard in every square... Continue reading

As a subscriber to two newspapers and multiple magazines who is fast reaching his dotage (I am almost 36), I often have conversations with people in their twenties who laugh at my "affectation" of reading print, when almost everything is... Continue reading

Over at Jazz at Lincoln Center Radio, we've just finished a new show about legendary saxophonist and big band arranger Frank Foster's ambivalence about love. If Valentine's Day left you with similarly mixed feelings, you might find the music a... Continue reading

I have a short piece up in the January 2010 issue of Popular Science about a promising form of music therapy used in the arduous process of healing traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) in veterans. Because of the pervasiveness of IEDs,... Continue reading