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Chet Raymo has a nice essay rebutting Larry Dossey's screed about why science doesn't accept the wisdom of alternative medicine gurus such as Depak Chopra <I>et al</I>.

Roy Blount, one of my favorite writers, was just elected head of the Author's Guild, to which I belong. Yay us!

Infectious blue-eyed soul from Jamie Lidell's <I>Multiply</I>. Gee, I wonder if the white cat is a metaphor for something. Ah, who cares?

"Centuries from now, scientists may point to this as the moment in time when the pickiness gene became dominant. In the end, it will come down to one really old, lonely guy and his list.

An appreciation of a most singular man.

When I worked as a corporate speechwriter, my hardest job was weaning people off of their PP dependency and getting them to tell me what they did in conversational rhythms rather than bullet points. The people who downloaded the most data in pre-speechwriting interviews <I>and</I> delivered the best speeches at the events were the ones who'd never used that "gateway" program.

Neil Gaiman's lovely little fairy tale is going to be a movie. This could be good news, since <I>Stardust</I> has a deliberately simple storyline, unlike most of Gaiman's oeuvre and offers the best chance of a straight movie adaptation.