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 […]
Seventy years before the OJ Simpson murder story, another matter was being referred to as The Trial Of The Century. That was the Leopold and Loeb case, in which two college students from wealthy families were charged with killing a teenage boy just for the thrill of it. What made the case a national sensation […]
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? […]
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey was out, so Dan Strauss talked about “Kung Fu Panda 3” and I reviewed “The Finest Hours,” “45 Years” and — belatedly — “Creed.” I also had a few thoughts about “Grease Live,” which will air Sunday night on Fox. Listen to our conversation here.
This week on the showbiz segment of my show, Colin Jeffrey and I discussed the continuing Academy Award nominations controversy and reviewed “”The 5th Wave.” We also predicted a Tina Fey sighting on “SNL” tomorrow night, and talked about how stars qualify for the all-time biggest boxoffice list, as well as the pay gap on […]
When I heard that astronomers might have found a new ninth planet out past Neptune, I called my friend Phil Plait for an explanation. Here he is, putting it in layman’s terms — just as he does in his Slate column — including how it’s possible for an object ten times the size of Earth […]