This week, blogger Andrew Sullivan announced, with some trepidation, that he was taking his Daily Dish blog private (it's currently carried by Newsweek/The Daily Beast) as a subscription-only site. You can read his reasons for doing so here. The trepidation, freely admitted, was that the financial support from readers would [...]

Don’t make resolutions. Make revolutions. As you head into a bright shining New Year, you could do well to spend some time making resolutions. You could write a list of things you feel you ought to change about yourself or you could pull out last year’s list. Because chances are, [...]

Gretchen Reynolds in The New York Times offers a compelling look at the science behind the theory that exercise makes us smarter and finds that it's not only true today but may be part of what caused human intelligence to develop in the first place. She quotes a 2004 article [...]