"$1.1 million-plus Gates grants: ‘Galvanic’ bracelets that measure student engagement."

Link. But what if they're engaged in their own daydreams? And isn't this basically a lie detector ? And if so, won't students tr...

"Give me a signal: Adjust your shorts."

It's the commercial that is mystifying and horrifying everyone. IN THE COMMENTS: Scrutineer says: One doesn't dissect a Vorshtein .

Maureen Dowd picks up "a vibe so weird and jittery, so at odds with the early thrilling, fairy dust feel of the Obama revolution."

At the Democratic Convention. There were a lot of bitter Clinton associates, fund-raisers and supporters wandering the halls, spewing vindic...

From the Mark Penn memos: "Release the tapes. Create immediate pressure that deprives him of oxygen."

Jake Tapper asks: "What tapes?" The date on the memo is December 30, 2007, so it must be the Jeremiah Wright tapes. Can there real...

"Once personal wealth exceeds about $12,000 a year..."

"... more money produces virtually no increase in life satisfaction." That's what the happiness experts tell us . Wow. Let...

Catching up on the NYT/taking a hot bath.

I want to read the three newspapers that came while I was away, but I don't want to spend all evening on the task. I've got a podcas...

Yet another Piano Man update.

From The Independent: He was, in fact, 20-year-old Andreas Grassl, a farmer's son from a small village on the German-Czech border. His f...

The big, foaming mass-o'-celebrities blog.

Arianna Huffington thinks she's discovered something new in blogging: the group blog with famous people, a lot of famous people. If yo...