I LOVE this. [Image credit: Schroeder Jones] We were three awkward, shy, 13-year-old girls; we were not, by any stretch of the imagination, “popular.”…

First off, thanks to Team Marketing Report for gathering the numbers and producing this excellent graph of the average cost of beer at each baseball stadium. But that San Diego Padres number gave me p

It’s one of the dumbest things you can do at a baseball game. Forget the extreme likelihood of it being alcohol-fueled. Forget the potential for personal ramifications. Forget the disruptive attributes. Forget the long line of questionable characters who went before you, and with whom, you are…

Do you believe in aliens? Feel the need for some kind of intelligent design theory with your aetheism? Think religion needs more sex? Have a general need to feel like you belong? How about clones? Do you wanna get a clone baby? If you ever get approached by the Raelians, and consider becoming one of…

Sections Shows Video Support TV Schedule Search Donate Tending the Wild Tending the Wild shines light on the environmental knowledge of indigenous peoples across California by exploring how they have actively shaped and tended the land for millennia. New Series: Tending the Wild Watch Now The…

[This is my Local Living section column for April 22, 2010.] My online discussion group, Admissions 101 , recently exchanged verbal blows over foreign language courses in high school. Most of us defended the conventional wisdom. Learning another language improves cognitive development, we said. It…

I'm entering into my last two weeks of French education here in Paris. I started taking classes two days after I arrived. I will be in class until the day before I leave. I spend four hours every day drilling grammar and then an hour or two outside, studying. This has meant me seeing the city…

I wrote a small piece for Elle Singapore (Sept 2013) about what it’s like to be lesbian in Singapore. Available on the newsstands now, page 147. Mention to someone in passing that you’re lesbian and o