Last year, Ben McGrath wrote a great article for the New Yorker about the new frontier in prosthetics, which involves using the brain to tr...

Lately I’ve been into exploring the science-art intersection/interaction/interface. This is something I’ve been interested in since I began,...

My vicarious experience with Montezuma’s Revenge over the Christmas holiday raised some questions. Where, I wondered, does Mexico get its fr...

Every Christmas holiday, the members of my family uproot from their various corners of the continental U.S. and converge on an area of the G...

In response to my post the other day about photovoltaic cells, I received a number of responses indicating I had done an inadequate job expl...

My friend Will e-mailed me this today!

I have a hate/love/(hate again) relationship with IKEA. I hate the light-birch color of their furniture, because it reminds me of the flesh ...