A recipe for making ice cream in a plastic bag has become a lightning rod of controversy at Lifehacker.com. Should one buy boxed ice cream prepared in some smoke-puffing factory and carted around in gas-guzzling trucks, or produce it at home using a nonbiodegradable bag that will end up strangling a baby seal? [...]

At a San Francisco Starbucks, Karen Lodrick bumped into an acquaintance–sort of. It was the woman who stole Lodrick’s identity less than a year earlier. A spirited chase ensued. Back on Market Street, Nelson hailed a cab. Lodrick ran up to the cabbie: “I have 911 on the line,” she told him. “Please don’t [...]

Here’s a cool bit of history. Before the printing press was invented by Mr. Gutenberg in the 15th century, books had to be copied by hand. Legions of scribes and copyists made their living doing just that. As printed books grew in popularity, the historian Will Durant, in his brilliant history of the Renaissance, [...]

A new study finds that muscular men have more sexual partners and enjoy greater popularity with the ladies. Or does it? The researchers, who are associated with UCLA’s Center for Behavior, Evolution and Culture, say that their findings on muscularity are consistent with research findings on the secondary sexual characteristics of other animals, such as [...]

A reluctant juror gets into trouble for pretending to be a racist, homophobic, compulsive liar.

In the film “Annie Hall” and the short story “The Whore of Mensa,” Woody Allen jokes about New York Jewish intellectuals sending their children to “socialist summer camps.” Ronald Radosh attended one such camp in the late ’50s. In his memoir, Commies, Radosh describes his own Red Diaper upbringing. His parents, ardent [...]

Some years ago, before 9/11 turned him into a moonbat, the philosopher Dennis Miller proclaimed that he was for immigration, but against illegal immigration. His reasoning: because it’s, well, illegal. Miller’s argument is used today by many who favor a more restrictionist immigration policy. I could think of a weaker argument against immigration if I wanted [...]