The Prohibition era had been a great source of material for building an excellent science of alcohol intoxication
Human life must be cheap to the one who can place the dollar above it -John Ruston
Even in the heyday of frozen concentrate, the popularity of orange juice rested largely on its image as the ultimate natural beverage, fresh squeezed from a primordial fruit. But the reality is that h...
Choosing not to feel pain is choosing a sort of death, a withering away of the expansive self.
The best instructional programs help students master a subject by encouraging attentiveness, demanding hard work, and reinforcing learned skills through repetition.
SCIENTISTS HAD KNOWN since the late nineteenth century that tobacco smoke contains carbon monoxide. Victorian scientists had even been able to calculate the amount of gas in the smoke: up to 4 percent...
Even if a perfect system could be designed, it would still have to operate in an imperfect world.
The U.S. government spends billions of dollars on disasters after they happen, but it pinches pennies when it comes to preparing for them.
At Stone’s direction, Harry removed ovaries, blinded the female rats, and removed their olfactory bulbs. Sightless, hormone-deprived—it didn’t matter. The mother rats crawled determinedly toward the b...
Our own ways of mourning may be unique, but the human capacity to grieve deeply is something we share with other animals.
Although traditional weapons killed far more people in the Great War, poison gas gave a new nightmare edge to the fighting.
We typically think of stress as being a risk factor for disease, said Cole. And it is, somewhat. But if you actually measure stress, using our best available instruments, it can’t hold a candle to soc...
That same January the city government had released a report declaring that thanks to ill-informed, corrupt, and occasionally drunken coroners, murderers in New York were escaping justice in record num...
In 1847 three English children fell seriously ill after eating birthday cake decorated with arsenic-tinted green leaves.
Henry Adams: A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
But with sea levels rising along the East Coast—a natural phenomenon accelerated by climate change—scientists project that in our lifetimes what was once considered a hundred-year flood will happen ev...
At the present time I am spending nearly $300 a month from my own personal funds for work which in my opinion has absolutely to be done to keep up the work of the office,
At the end, in Harry’s handiwork, there’s nothing sentimental about love, no sunlit clouds and glory notes – it’s a substantial, earthbound connection, grounded in effort, kindness and decency. Learni...
He confessed to stalking, torturing, and assaulting 400 children while traveling the country.
Does our essence still lie in what we know, or are we now content to be defined by what we want? If we don’t grapple with that question ourselves, our gadgets will be happy to answer it for us.