By RICHARD A. FRIEDMAN, M.D.
In a few days, the winter solstice will plunge us into the longest and darkest night of the year. Is it any surprise that we humans respond with a holiday season of relentless cheer and partying?
It doesn’t work for everyone, though. As daylight wanes, millions begin to feel depressed, sluggish […]
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By ERICA GOODE
Does your gerbil seem depressed?
Is its coat rough, its appetite flagging, its posture hunched?
Does its exercise wheel stand sadly silent?
If so, it might be suffering from Tyzzer’s disease, a bacterial infection commonly seen in gerbils, especially when stressed.
Then again, the little rodent might just have a bad case of pinworms.
Not knowing […]
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By JOHN TIERNEY
At a Best Buy store in Midtown Manhattan, Donald Norman was previewing a scene about to be re-enacted in living rooms around the world.
He was playing with one of this year’s hot Christmas gifts, a digital photo frame from Kodak. It had a wondrous list of features — it could display […]
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By DENNIS OVERBYE
“Gravity,” goes the slogan on posters and bumper stickers. “It isn’t just a good idea. It’s the law.”
And what a law. Unlike, say, traffic or drug laws, you don’t have a choice about obeying gravity or any of the other laws of physics. Jump and you will come back down. Faith or […]
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By JOHN MARKOFF
SAN JOSE, Calif. — Nanosolar, a heavily financed Silicon Valley start-up whose backers include Google’s co-founders, plans to announce Tuesday that it has begun selling its innovative solar panels, which are made using a technique that is being held out as the future of solar power manufacturing.
The company, which has raised […]
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By DEVAN SIPHER
Cinderella is alive and well and living on Staten Island.
Ingrid Michaelson, a 28-year-old singer-songwriter whose self-produced album “Girls and Boys” reached No. 2 on the iTunes pop chart, is enjoying an enchanted transformation as a recording artist.
Ms. Michaelson’s climb out of obscurity started, as is so often the case these days, on […]
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