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Readings — From the December 1998 issue
Readings — From the December 1991 issue
Article — From the February 1979 issue
Article — From the August 1962 issue
Literary notes — From the June 1899 issue
Literary notes — From the March 1898 issue
Literary notes — From the April 1897 issue
Literary notes — From the October 1896 issue
Editor's drawer — From the March 1862 issue
Our foreign bureau — From the March 1859 issue
Ratio of the number of cicada eggs per square mile of southern New Jersey to the number of stars in the Milky Way:
Jeffrey Lockwood, University of Wyoming (Laramie)/American Museum of Natural History (N.Y.C.)
A Singaporean company unveiled Kissenger, a pair of plastic lips mounted on a large plastic egg, which transmits real-time interactive kisses to a distant lover. “I am not interested in the sexual uses for it,” said the device’s inventor. “We’ve taken several steps to minimize the creepiness.”
The practice of sexualized eyeball licking was causing conjunctivitis in Japanese sixth graders.
