First, the good news: According to a recent article by Jonathan Leake, science editor of
The Sunday Times UK, scientific researchers have determined that evolution is driving women to become even more beautiful. But the bad news, the same research says, is that men remain as aesthetically unappealing as their cavemen ancestors—in other words, they are not genetically programmed to become handsomer.
Read Jonathan Leake's “Women are getting more beautiful” in the July 26, 2009 issue of The Sunday Times UK now!
And there’s another possibly bad news for both the male and female population: Brian Catchcart in the summer 2009 issue of
Intelligent Life Magazine raises this disturbing question: Is Google possibly killing general knowledge? To get some answers, he has talked with educators, quiz-show winners, and quizmasters and he details his findings in the article.
Read a summary of Brian Catchcart's “Is Google Killing General Knowledge” in the Idea of The Day section of the August 8, 2009 issue of The New York Times now! And here’s bonus reading for writers who quaff a drink too many…For literary types who tend to have a drink too many, here’s a bonus reading: Tom Shone’s article in
Intelligent Life Magazine about accomplished writers—John Cheever, William Faulkner, Scott Fitzgerald, Raymond Carver, Stephen King, and Elnore Leonard among them—who’d quit drinking and sobered up for good, and those who didn’t.
Read Tom Shone’s “When Novelists Sober Up” in the August 23, 2009 issue of Publetariat.com now!
