People tell their doctors personal information that no one else knows- these clipboard wielding strangers know so many details about us that maybe it's time we get to know them a little better. One could look to prime time to learn more about the secret lives of doctors- ABC's Scrubs is hilarious, ER is a classic, and there's about a dozen more doctor shows. These shows might be so popular because they tell the story from the other side of the stethoscope… with a little more glam. Well, a lot ...

Super Saturday! is a free event for families and children on Saturday, April 4, 2009. Enjoy a fun-filled day of hands-on science and math activities and demonstrations. Learn the physics of how things fly and how hula hoops work, and the biology of how our bodies move and function, among other amazing things. Parents and children will enjoy exploring the science that we see in our daily life!
See what you can do at Super Saturday!

- See a cow eye dissection
- Learn how 3-D works
- Make your own mini-helicopter and ...

Studying honeybees has changed my focus, a bit. I knew that the bees were hunkered down in the hive all winter, waiting for the weather to warm up so that they can take some "relief" flights. But, wondering about when the bees would be coming out of their hives to start collecting pollen has gotten me much more intensely focussed on what's budding as the weather starts to warm up. It had never before occurred to me that bees would be anxiously awaiting the early blooming crocuses to collect, perhaps, ...

By Teshamae Monteith, MD

A few hours after a fall on a ski slope in a Canadian resort on March 18th, Natasha Richardson appeared "disoriented... with signs of confusion... a concussion," according to a medic. After a lucid interval, she experienced severe headaches. Within a few hours she was verbal but without orientation. The final moments of Richardson's life illustrate the progressive stages of a fatal brain injury. On March 19, the New York Medical Examiner declared the cause of death was due to a traumatic epidural ...

We are all the suns of our own universes, yet I'm not sure I would have had the audacity, or maybe the wisdom, to extend the metaphor to a personal theory of wave particle duality or to a life-sized paradigm shift. Emily Levine dares to see the biggest picture out there and then shrinks it down to the size of her own life in her one-woman show, Emily at the Edge of Chaos, at the Ensemble Studio Theatre. Directed by Marcia Jean Kurtz, Levine takes us through a personal ...