My microwave oven zapped its final zap last week and I can’t believe how much I miss it. Years ago, when my kids first suggested I buy one I hissed, “WaddamI gonna do with it?”  They’d heard that line before.  I had said the same thing about the VCR, the cordless telephone, the answering machine […] Read more…

Forensic science became a popular high school course when the first CSI series hit the (no longer) small screen. The curriculum now includes topics such as crime time, post mortem patter, rigor mortis, tracking down serial killers and — who dyes that Goth girl’s hair. You know, stuff that relates to the average teen’s everyday […] Read more…

Are women better than men at making decisions?  The age-old question recently popped up – again- in a New York Times article with Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and several respected female neuroscientists weighing in.  The results were an inconclusive “Maybe.”  At least that’s how I read them, but I didn’t know that my assumption would soon […] Read more…