What the Dog Saw

A surprising cast of characters --the inventor of the birth control pill; the king of kitchen gadgets, Ron Popeil; soft-spoken canine wizard Cesar Millan -- animates this collection of journalistic adventures from the author of The Tipping Point and Blink.

 

May 24: Joseph Brodsky was born on this day in 1940 in Leningrad. Brodsky's constitutional skepticism was not compatible with the official Soviet alternatives, and by age twenty-five he was in prison, wrapped in cold, wet sheets as…

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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