New URMA issue on my desk

Volume 12, Number 1 of Illumination (University of Missouri)

New URMA issue on my desk

Volume 13, Number 3 of Explore (University of Florida)

New URMA issue on my desk

Volume 9, Number 2 of MSU Today (Michigan State University)

An eradicated killer

The Demon in the Freezer: How smallpox, a disease of officially eradicated twenty years ago, became the biggest bioterrorist threat we now face.

Winner, American Society of Magazine Editors' Best American Magazine Writing, 2000. (Richard Preston, The New Yorker)

Friday poll results

Are you on Facebook?

• Yes, I use it all the time: 13 votes (37%)


• I set up a profile, but don't really do anything with it: 8 votes (22%)


• No, I decided not to: 10 votes (28%)


• Face-what? 4 votes (11%)

Writing quote of the day

"In writing, assume full rationality. Assume your audience is at its best and that you have to live up to it. That is, establish your general view of the audience, and then proceed as if you were writing to yourself as a member of that audience -- at your best, most perceptive potential. You must project the most cognitively severe mind -- and the only mind that you can project completely is your own at its most consistent, clearest level of functioning. In that sense, write as if you are trying to convince yourself." Ayn Rand, The Art of Nonfiction 22-23 (1969; Robert Mayhew ed., 2001).

The Year in Pictures, Part 3

The third and final in boston.com's series

The Year in Pictures, Part 2

From boston.com's Big Picture series

The Year in Pictures, Part 1

From boston.com's Big Picture series

How much do I hate this writer?

Private Library from A Space In Time on Vimeo.

A short film about New York architect Andrew Berman's dream project.
Commissioned to design a writing studio in the woods in Long Island, he took the challenge and created a building which seems to float in a sea of foliage.

http://vimeo.com/1696112 (From Vimeo)