brave new world
The Trust Drug
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Researchers in Europe report success with clinical trials of a new "Trust drug", aka the "cuddle chemical", which soothes those who take it into trusting people even though that "trust" has been abused.
A Virtual Ghost Town: The Tennessean's Blogs
Uh-Oh! Camp Obama Caught Playing Both Sides of NAFTA
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Obamamania keeps rolling. Hat tip to reader Chip, here’s the latest from the Barack-Davidians, in what I can only describe as an audio-visual of what meditation time in Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World must look like and sound like.
No Morning Newspaper, Day One
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I realized yesterday that morning that newspaper subscriptions aren’t like magazine subscriptions. If I no longer want a particular magazine, I just don’t pay the invoice and voila, no more magazine. Newspapers have to be stopped with a phone call. I couldn’t stop The Tennessean by ignoring the invoices. I couldn’t cancel it over the internet, although I could extend my subscription, change my subs
The Year of the Editor Revisited
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At the beginning of the year I predicted that 2008 would be the year of the editor. In that post I said:



