An offensive lineman can’t do his job without “using his head,” one veteran says, but neuropathologists examining the brains of ex-N.F.L. players have found trauma-related degeneration. Credit Photograph by Bill Frakes / Sports Illustrated / Getty One evening in August, Kyle Turley was at a bar in…

Recovery time. Bestival is over and I am catching up on much needed sleep in a big bed with duvet and mattress, a far cry from achy backs in the morning, no-pillow-neck-crunch and grass in the sleeping bag. This time of year is perfect for body and mind rehabilitation. Shuffling about with half open…

War is Rupert Murdoch’s natural state. When he launched the Fox Broadcasting Company, in October 1986, he went to war against the hegemony of CBS, ABC, and NBC. With Fox News he crossed swords with CNN’s Ted Turner. At Sky, his satellite-TV system in the U.K., he went up against the BBC. He’s…

With all of the scrutiny that high-frequency trading is now under in the media and in Congress, the New York Stock Exchange is probably none too thrilled that the Wall Street Journal has uncovered fresh details of NYSE's giant new datacenter, which the exchange is building in a former New Jersey…

Costlier care is often worse care. Credit Photograph by Phillip Toledano It is spring in McAllen, Texas. The morning sun is warm. The streets are lined with palm trees and pickup trucks. McAllen is in Hidalgo County, which has the lowest household income in the country, but it’s a border town, and a…

'She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,' cried the young Student; 'but in all my garden there is no red rose.' From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him, and she looked out through the leaves, and wondered. 'No red rose in all my garden!' he cried, and…

LAS VEGAS — Scofflaws could hack the smart cards that access electronic parking meters in large cities around the United States, researchers are finding. The smart cards pay for parking spots, and their programming could be easily changed to obtain unlimited free parking. It took researcher Joe…

2. This is the second and last installment of “Seven Lies About Lying.” Read the first installment . Ricky Jay and I had begun our discussion of lying and deception with the story of Joseph, specifically with (Genesis 37:29-34) []. It’s worth a closer look. (Here is a summary.) Joseph is the 11th…

Home Features Physics Feature 5 August 2009 By Helen Thomson FIVE years ago, Londoner Ashley Revell sold his house, all his possessions and cashed in his life savings. It raised £76,840. He flew to Las Vegas, headed to the roulette table and put it all on red. The wheel was spun . The crowd held its…

Times Literary Supplement , July 10, 2009, p 24 Leviathan or, The Whale , by Philip Hoare (Fourth Estate), 453pp. £18.99. ISBN: 978-0-000-723013-6 (hardback); 978-0007230143 (pbk) Review by P.D. Smith Herman Melville’s epic novel Moby-Dick (1851) is Philip Hoare’s guiding star in this beautifully…