I've never been a big fan of the idea - so beloved by romance novelists - that the eyes are "windows" to the inner person. And when I teach narrative writing I always warn my students that if they must see a person's "soul in his/her eyes" that it had better be due to a major...
Category: eyes
I've never been a big fan of the idea - so beloved by romance novelists - that the eyes are "windows" to the inner person. And when I teach narrative writing I always warn my students that if they must see a person's "soul in his/her eyes" that it had better be due to a major scientific discovery. Otherwise, their grades will be heading south.
So when I saw this headline in the Los Angeles Times, Sexual Orientation: The Eyes Tell All, my first reaction was to (sorry, couldn't resist here) roll my eyes. But as the author was Thomas H. Maugh II - as solid and cautious a science writer as I know - I decided to give it a second look. And it actually turned out to be an interesting story, although, probably not surprisingly, more complicated than the headline might suggest.
The basic...
Sandra G. Boodman at The Washington Post has disrupted my morning...
Sandra G. Boodman at The Washington Post has disrupted my morning once again.
An aggregator that I follow just picked up a story of hers from last December. And while I have other things to do this morning, I couldn't pass Boodman's story by.
It begins with a woman, Silvia Bacot, walking down the hall at work, saying hello to everyone she passes because she can no longer see well enough to tell whom she knows and whom she doesn't. This is what hooked me, a few grafs into the piece:
It wasn’t until the summer of 2010, while...
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