When the Internet first entered the public imagination, it was seen as a beacon of freedom from the oppressive Cold War decades that had preceded it.

Ever get jealous of people who share names with hurricanes?

Jeremy Piven is not supposed to be weak. Most famous for his portrayal of über-agent Ari Gold on HBO’s Entourage, Piven has made an icon of the brash, cocky, balls-to-the-wall businessman who is not afraid to throw down to make a sale. And for about half of “The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard,” Piven is all that and more…

More than six years ago, a shaggy-haired, heavily-accented quartet emerged on the music scene across the pond. And that’s about where the Beatles’ likeness ends…

As with any movie that dabbles in the realms of time and space, “The Time Traveler’s Wife” leaves the audience perplexed by the rationale of time travel, but proves to be a worthy film in which love truly does surpass all…

A romantically stunted woman and a secretly heartbroken man fall in love. This summary simply screams boring and unoriginal, but somehow writers Nicole Eastman, Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith captivate with the thoroughly amusing “Ugly Truth…”

In an ongoing lawsuit against Genetics Prof. Michele Calos and the University, Christopher Sclimenti Ph.D. ‘02 is filing 15 claims, including plagiarism, breach of contract and royalty rights. Calos was Sclimenti’s lab advisor during his time at Stanford, during which they collaborated on genetics technology that was later patented…

In April, Vaden Health Center announced a $167 per quarter fee for its services, beginning this fall. All enrolled students—except those abroad or far outside the campus vicinity—are required to pay the fee, regardless of an external insurance plan…

Stephen Quake, professor of bioengineering at Stanford University, recently developed the first commercially available human genome sequencer. At $48,000 per use, the HeliScope Single Molecule Sequencer promises to decode a complete human genome in as quickly as four weeks…

With all the excitement surrounding Sonia Sotomayor’s confirmation to the Supreme Court, I wonder if President Obama couldn’t have made a more interesting choice. The hearings were decidedly boring, with only Sotomayor’s “wise Latina” comments and a piece from The New Republic that leaned heavily on anonymous commentary about Sotomayor to paint her as a [...]