A Heinous Hairdo Is Creeping Back Into the Limelight
The real horror of The Da Vinci Code? It's Tom Hanks' hair.
A History of Brain Transplantaton
In case that device for perfusing your head doesn't work, there's always transplantation. How has this been kept so quiet?
A History of the Universe in 200 Words or Less
What it says.
A Kingsley Amiss Revival?
Not bloody likely, says Michael Dirda. A scant 12 years after his death, you're unlikely to find even his most lauded novel, Lucky Jim in bookstores, libraries, or on friends' bookshelves.
A KwanzMasAka Miracle
Bagheera actually liked her present—so much that she vacated her preamp.
A Little First-Hand Knowledge
I love this site! Kids describe and draw scientists beore and after a trip to Fermilab.
A Matter of Scale
Subway maps of the world, rendered to scale. Why do I link to that? Because it's got subways . . . and maps . . . and, uh, scale.
A Modest Proposal
Joshua Kosman suggests the NYP give up its search for a music director and run the Philharmonic on the "wiki model."
A Modest Proposal
Mark Cuban has a new business model for the music industry: Give it away.
A Musical Taste Algorithm?
Hah—I'd like to see the program, that could figure me out!