I was downtown last night, drove by The Dome, and noticed that it still has signs outside exhorting people to buy St. Louis Rams tickets. I’m sure someone will get around to taking them down any month now. I was going to write a post about Larry Wilmore’s performance at the White House Correspondents Dinner, […]
As someone who grew up with the US space program — when that only meant NASA — I was blown away by the accomplishment of Elon Musk’s SpaceX crew on Friday. They sent a Falcon 9 rocket to rendezvous with the International Space Station, but even more impressively, they managed to get the first stage […]
Larry Schwartz lists 25 things you’ve heard your entire life were “facts,” but aren’t really true. For instance: frogs give you warts, sugar makes kids hyperactive, bats are blind, lightning never strikes the same place twice, and you should drink eight glasses of water a day. Schwartz says they’re all false.
I have mentioned before how much I thoroughly enjoy reading Randall Munroe’s “What If?” column. The latest to put a smile on my face is his answer to a 9th-grader’s question: how long would it take for a single person to fill an entire swimming pool with their own saliva? Munroe’s answer is here.
Earlier this week, I wrote about how disappointed I was in Bill Maher’s softball interview with Dr. Samir Chachoua, who claims he developed an AIDS cure from the milk of arthritic goats and administered it to Charlie Sheen. To follow up, I called upon Dr. Steven Novella (clinical neurologist, assistant professor at Yale School of […]
Here’s my conversation with Dr. David Agus, best-selling author of “The End Of Illness,” about his new book, “The Lucky Years: How To Thrive In The Brave New World Of Health.” Among the topics we discussed: Why are these The Lucky Years? With so much medical information available, isn’t there the risk of getting misinformation? […]