Entries from March 2010
Mar. 8, 2010
Life Magazine Photos of Boston’s Strangler Days
A trove of remarkable photographs of Boston during the Strangler siege. The photos, which are eerie and beautiful, were taken by Arthur Rickerby for Life Magazine. View the whole collection here. Above: A woman wears a hatpin in her sleeve to defend herself against the Strangler, 1963.
Tags: The Strangler
Mar. 2, 2010
Explaining Insomnia
Jonah Lehrer on why we can’t sleep, an affliction that has me thrashing around every night: Because insomnia is triggered, at least in part, by anxiety about insomnia, the worst thing we can do is think about not being able to sleep; the diagnosis exacerbates the disease. And that’s why this frustrating condition will never [...]
Tags: insomnia · Jonah Lehrer
Mar. 1, 2010
Google’s Buzzbomb
I thought I would love Google Buzz. Really. I am a Google fan. I adore Gmail, and in all the other Google products I’ve used — Calendar, Maps, Documents, the iconic search page — the company has gotten things mostly right. Also, I try to maintain as many portals as possible for readers to find [...]
Tags: Google · Google Buzz
