Professor Yeti

Alcohol has a thousand faces — can a scientific approach help me get a good one every time?

The healthy work/life balance is alive and well in Britain. But why do I find it so frustrating?

Five Ways to Save

Bike it
Eat in
Go to second-run movies
Turn down the heat

Five Things that are Almost Ungodly

Satin
Joseph Heller
Ladies
2004 Pontiac DeVille
Loose fur

Five Reasons to Not Watch Television

Commercials
Idiotic programming
Hardball with Chris Matthews
Cable is too expensive
Other things to do

Five Books […]

Advice on a wide variety of topics, from the sacred to the profane to the evil office copy machines.

Travels in the alternate reality known as the pet store.

Are standardized tests applied as they should be? Has Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act been successful? . . . The GRE opens Alex’s eyes and he decides to investigate.

A chance to edit a letter about a touchy subject.

An instance of snooping that spawns regret.

The joys of autobiographical cinema as exhibited in Ross McElwee’s Sherman’s March.

Is internet news better than television news?