More and more NFL players have been willing their bodies to science so that their brains can be studied even if they die of other causes.

A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

Well, I think of the folks who are the climate deniers as the flat Earthers and the people who say the moon landings never happened.

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

Photography is about freezing a moment in time; McGinley's is about freezing a stage in a lifetime.

There's no such thing as downtime for your brain.

Narcissism falls along the axis of what psychologists call personality disorders, one of a group that includes antisocial, dependent, histrionic, avoidant and borderline personalities. But by most measures, narcissism is one of the worst, if only because the narcissists themselves are so clueless.