The Science of Kissing

Dooley Wilson may sing "a kiss is just a kiss" in Casablanca, but science journalists like Sheril Kirshenbaum know that even the most fundamental things can benefit from having curiosity applied to them, as in her enlightening examination of the history, science, and prospects of osculatory pursuits.

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

Angry robots! Aren't they all? Well, not the line of fine science fiction and fantasy books that comes to readers under the rubric Angry Robot. In fact, their offerings…

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