Jim Leff's Slog

In his pan of Eddie Murphy's latest drek, "A Thousand Words" (in which Murphy's character is forced to communicate withou...

Opportunity and Spirit , the two rovers that began exploring Mars in 2004, vastly exceeded expectations. They were on a 90 day mission, but...

To do anything artistic, you need to open up. To get through life, you need to guard. For some reason, Many people get this backwards.

I watched the weather radar on my iPhone last night as the big storm passed over, and have never seen anything like it; it seemed to move at...

Longtime Slog readers know I like to try to explain different groups to each other. One useful tool for unknotting conflict and cultivating ...

Here's a dynamite 80 minute seminar on cosmology by Nobel laureate John Mather, lead scientist for the James Webb Space Telescope proj...

There's an interesting discussion going on re: my recent article about "The Enemy of My Problems" , in the comments beneath th...

See this excellent Bloomberg article accounting for Mitt's magical IRA : The most mysterious of the unexplained mysteries about Mitt Ro...

A couple of weeks ago, I passed on a tip for BOREF , which is another undiscovered company with mature, sock-o technology that's remaine...

I have one burning desire for myself and for the world: for things to get better. For pain to be relieved, for happiness to increase, for de...