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Busy F&T Blogger Announces Thinking Strike

It’s with a heavy heart today that I announce my temporary retirement from Food & Think. Don’t worry—I’ll be back

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Building a Better Dinosaur

Charles Darwin

Emotional Expression in Apes Going Ape

One of the big themes of this year’s AAAS meeting was—you guessed it— Charles Darwin

Dustin Hoffman, in the famous scene from The Graduate, during his first liaison with Mrs. Robinson. The movie was rejected by every major Hollywood studio.

Five Films that Redefined Hollywood

Author Mark Harris discusses his book about the five movies nominated for Best Picture at the 1967 Academy Awards

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Vermilion, Ohio

A ‘one movie theatre’ town on the shore of Lake Erie

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Sutter Creek, California

A small northern California foothills town

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Sweet Potatoes in Space

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The National Mall, Defined

With the concave shape of the asphalt lanes, the path of the ball can be
unpredictable. Veteran players, however, have learned to use the physics of
the wheel-like disk and the curvature of the lane to their advantage.

Weave, Wobble and Roll: Feather Bowling

The unusual Belgian sport has a small but loyal following in Detroit

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Tour the Portrait Gallery’s Hall of Presidents on Presidents’ Day

It’s Presidents’ Day—come out to the National Portrait Gallery and pay your respects to the guys who garnered us three days of discount shopping

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Dispatch from AAAS—Big Fish and other Award-Winning Stories

This weekend, fellow blogger Sarah and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. It’s basically a greatest hits of science conference.

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Dispatch from AAAS—Origami and Objects that Cannot Exist

This weekend, blog overseer Laura and I are writing from the AAAS Annual Meeting in Chicago. The press briefing began with four scientists gazing upwards

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