Tonight, 20/20 Gets SuperFreaky
Tonight, ABC’s 20/20 devotes a full hour to SuperFreakonomics. The show’s five segments can be previewed online: Read More »
Will There Be Snow in Moscow This Winter?
Not if the mayor of Moscow Yury Luzhkov has his way. According to Simon Shuster at TIME magazine,
For just a few million dollars, the mayor’s office will hire the Russian Air Force to spray a fine chemical mist over the clouds before they reach the capital, forcing them to dump their snow outside the city. Authorities say this will be a boon for Moscow, which is typically covered with a blanket of snow from November to March. Read More »
The Quantified Life
You know yourself pretty well. But what if a lot of your conventional wisdom about what makes you tick–what makes you happy, healthy and whole–turned out to be wrong? How would you find out? You’d probably start by… Read More »
Naming the Child
My son Andrew died exactly ten years ago today, October 23, 1999, nine days after his first birthday. No one would describe me as emotional. And yet the wound still remains remarkably raw. Read More »
