Navigating Life With Humor and Bewilderment
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Nicky Gottlieb,  the subject of âTodayâs Man,â  has Asperger syndrome, a form of autism, and his sister, Lizzie Gottlieb, spent six years committing his life to film.
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Vividly impressionistic and delightfully curious, âPrimo Leviâs Journeyâ retraces the writerâs arduous return from a liberated Auschwitz to his home in Italy.
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By Munz, Tania  LORRAINE DASTON and GREGG MITMAN (eds.), Thinking with Animals: New Perspectives on Anthropomorphism. New York: Columbia University Press, 2005. Pp. vii+230. ISBN 0-2311.3038-4. Pounds 32.00, $49.50 (hardback).
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Seeking like-minded political thought, or folks to argue with? Look no further.
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The complicated etiquette of saying "Get lost" online.
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Find other people searching for the same weird crap you are.
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Where do stereotypes, like jokes about dumb blondes, come from? An armchair economic analysis suggests some intriguing possibilities.
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No one can see the future. But there's no harm in some enlightened guessing. From whales to light bulbs, here's TIME's thinking person's guide to what's coming up
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I met an old friend for coffee in San Francisco yesterday afternoon, and had a few hours to kill before stopping in at the Wired reunion party. I didn't want to drive back to Berkeley because the weather was so crummy, and I was just across teh street from a movie theater and was just in time for the start of a movie that lots of people had been telling me to see. So I went. The movie -- The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, I had no idea what it was about until the movie started, then I remembered hearing a Fresh Air show about it and finding it too painful to listen to. Now here I was in the theater, not just being asked to listen to it, but being asked to live it. Through some very wonderful film-making, you feel as if what is happening to the main character is happening to you. Or more accurately, probably, you get the slightest hint of what it's like to be this person. My immediate impulse, one which I gave serious consideration to, was to pack up my things and leave. Anything would be better than spending three hours living this guy's life.  Two things happen over time: 1. You get over it. 2. They change perspective, and instead of being inside his body, you move outside it.  I think those two things are the story we all live as we mature and learn to live inside our own bodies, with their limits. You learn to step outside and see the humor in your predicament. The main character says he lives in a diving bell because it's as hard for him to communicate with other people as it would be at the bottom of the ocean inside a diving bell. The movie teaches that it's not much easier for the rest of us, even though we can manipulate symbols better. On the other hand, of course it is. The film develops a relationship between the hero and his father, between the hero and his own children, his ex-wife, his lover.  We strive for deeper understanding of ourselves and each other. But it may be ridiculously easy to find the only meaning that exists, without language, without intellect, by just being. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly should probably be the picture of the year for 2007, it's that good. But like all great art it shows you something truthful about yourself, and you may or may not want to see it.
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A new awareness of promoting Âan image of joy and wellness.Â
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Readers respond with wit, wisdom, and sometimes some venom, to Shortcuts columns.
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Laughter - A Powerful Tool Of Love by Fran Hafey
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Description: Though George Carlin is best known as a performer, he&#39;s collected his observations on life, the media, politics and the English language into a series of books.
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Global politics, seniors in love, fantastical fairy tales, technical glitches and the Weinstein brothers
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A taste of the latest in food memoirs, a thriving literary genre
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With this âautobiographyâ of his family, Alexander Waugh demonstrates that heâs inherited the literary gene in spades, as well as a gift for very funny, coruscating prose.
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Queue submissions being scarce, I suggest we all submit limericks for consideration.  Mod up your favorites.    I'm no poet, so I'll submit a favorite of my childhood:    There was a young woman named Bright,  Who traveled much faster than light    She set out one day  In a relative way    And returned on the previous night.    I'm afraid I don't remember the author.