Monthly Archives: May 2001

Some truth on the energy crisis. “No amount of drilling in Alaska or anywhere else is likely to have any impact on the crisis in California, a product not of fuel shortages but of a half-baked attempt at deregulation. Almost … Continue reading →

Yesterday, I signed a lease for a new apartment with my new roommates Allison and Rita (the strongest women at Tufts Med). I’m moving from Cambridge to Jamaica Plain some time in June. I’m pretty happy about the move, Cambridge … Continue reading →

All I can say is, it’s the most fun I’ve ever had watching a Flash movie.

Reader mail: Dear Sir, Our new site where you can buy and sell plastic raw materials is on-line now. Especially designed for the Turkish market, traders and producers who have an interest in the 1,500,000 mt pa market will find … Continue reading →

Philip K. Dick: Marxist literary critics are following me! “With them, besides a lot of good liquor and a pretty girl, they brought at least three complex Marxist philosophical theses on my novels… We had then a one-hour furious polemical … Continue reading →

Kurt Vonnegut still making trouble.

Gene therapy cures blindness in dogs.

What do you do when the whole of scientific knowledge becomes too great for a human to comprehend? You get a computer to learn it for you.

Study shows that dolphins are self-aware.

Brilliant careers: Björk “‘Most bands try to imitate others,’ ‘Ren & Stimpy’ creator John Kricfalusi told Paper magazine. Kricfalusi directed her animated video for ‘I Miss You.’ ‘But Björk is as original as Elvis — and she’s got a cuter … Continue reading →