Yale Daily News

As I begin my final semester of graduate school, I must report a troubling discovery: Throughout my many years of post-secondary education, I have never […]

January 25, 2007

Last fall, the journal Science reported that one-fifth of known human genes have been patented, some as many as 20 times. This surprising result highlights […]

December 7, 2006

This holiday season, Wal-Mart faces a boycott. To most Yalies, this is hardly controversial: Our idealistic ivory-tower classmates are rarely enchanted with union-busting, health-care-withholding corporate […]

November 16, 2006

On Tuesday, with Washington still fighting a Foley Internet hangover, the news wires reported that the U.S. intelligence community is using Intellipedia, a sort of […]

November 2, 2006

On Tuesday, Reuters assigned a full-time reporter to cover a virtual-reality environment called Second Life. The news agency will now bring breaking headlines to thousands […]

October 19, 2006

Florida Republican Congressman Mark Foley last week moonwalked away from his special Neverland of alleged man-boy seduction, leaving us to ponder a thorny question: Precisely […]

October 5, 2006

Many years ago, I learned the so-called “Golden Rule” of biochemistry: You get what you assay for. In other words, the result you attain from […]

September 22, 2006

Early next year, the CERN Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will finally commence operation. Buried 100 meters underground near the French-Swiss border, this particle accelerator will […]

September 12, 2006

The big Hollywood story this week is the underperformance of New Line Cinema’s “Snakes on a Plane.” After months of wild Internet hoopla, the kitschy […]

September 1, 2006

Early this morning, as I was trying to sleep on a flight, it struck me that air travel is no fun anymore. Flying today is […]

April 13, 2006

  I’ve had it with blog users and their double standard of personal privacy. The reasoning goes like this: Bloggers are free to choke the […]

March 30, 2006