"You are going to be working with an enzyme that bonds protein. You are made of protein."

"Unless you want to glue your lungs together or glue your eyelids to your eyeballs, you absolutely must follow these safety rules....

Who can take great beauty and talent and slam it into the ground?

Old TV did this sort of thing all the time: I found that clip in my search for a clip to pay tribute to Robert Goulet. This is the most clum...

Why aren't we paying much attention to the most qualified Democratic candidate in the race?

Matt Yglesias wonders (via Memeorandum ): [Bill Richardson is] the popular, second-term governor of a swing state -- you know, the sort of ...

"Chocolate thins blood and protects the heart in the same way as aspirin."

Okay, then. We'll eat chocolate! You have to eat at least a couple of tablespoons of dark chocolate a day to see some benefit -- and it...

"We’re going to be in a kind of bog of mixtures of constitutional law, unclear Oregon state law... et cetera."

Justice Breyer fretted yesterday in the course of the oral argument in a case about the constitutional restrictions on punitive damages. Th...

Go ahead and choose C-section!

There's no reason to discourage women from giving birth by Caesarean section, says the National Institute of Health. As the number of C...

Among the cadavers.

On Sunday I blogged about going to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, but I didn't have time to write that I also saw the " Body World...

Easter on State Street.

I took a yellow pad and a book I need to write about down to a café on State Street. I also brought the NYT crossword puzzle and some admiss...