ECHIDNE OF THE SNAKES

Slate has a long list of useful articles to understand what an outrage means on Twitter and what ensues when an outrage has happened.  If...

The New York Times has published a good article on the wildly varying prices for diagnostic procedures and the apparent stickiness of those...

Wikipedia , the wonderful experiment in anarchy, has a shadow side : Wikipedia is a paradox and a miracle—a crowdsourced encyclopedia t...

The New York Times is running a long series on the US employment situation.  Yesterday it ran a story of American men without jobs , today...

Religious rights often clash with human rights, because so many of them are demands to be allowed to decide how other people live or demand...

These studies are, first,  on comparing men and women who acquired a Harvard MBA on various measures of success and satisfaction, and, sec...

The name "cromnibus"* is a new silly word for both short-term and long-term government spending bills.  It's intended to keep...

This post covers sexual violence and rape What is a hoax?  One online dictionary defines it as "a plan to deceive a large group of p...

Here 's the song for you to listen to.  The old Soviet Union had elections where only one candidate ran(US)/stood(GB) for a particular ...

I have an old square wooden box which contains a small drawer.  The top lifts up and contains a mirror (speckled with age).  The mirror can...

The biggest topic in the US is what happened in the grand jury decision on Staten Island concerning the killing of Eric Garner and the pr...

David Frum (a conservative pundit) has written an opinion piece which tries to answer the question  why abortion rates in the US are fallin...

The title of this post (about breakfast) refers to a study which came out exactly a year ago, the one which argued that girl brainz and boy...

This story about Eugenie de Silva, a sixteen-year-old child prodigy (a Harvard graduate doing a PhD) raises all sorts of interesting questi...

I would be the ideal worker for any greedy capitalist, because my illness coincide with vacations.  That means I got sick on Wednesday and ...

The events of yesterday:  No indictment for Darren Wilson for the death of Michael Brown. How to write about that? We could begi...

Uber, one of the alternatives to traditional taxicab companies, has been in the news for all sorts of reasons, including its founders ap...

They are all men: Notably, none of the new House committee chairs are women. Current House Administration Committee Chairwoman Candice ...

Can you see the comments link when you read the blog?  I noticed that my SeaMonkey (a backup browser) doesn't show the comments link at ...

(This post is about sexual and physical violence.) The background to this story is a vast and tentacled one*,  about the fifteen (so far...