Peter Murmann

  By GEORGE JOHNSON (NYT) Maybe the pivotal moment came when Steven Weinberg, a Nobel laureate in physics, warned that “the world needs to wake up from its long nightmare of religious belief,” or when a Nobelist in chemistry, Sir Harold Kroto, called for the John Templeton Foundation to give its next $1.5 million prize for [Read More]

 Until last night’s election, Karl Rove could take it as complement to be called Bush’s brain. American voters no longer seem to believe that the brain of the commander-in-chief is large enough to steer the nation in the right directions. Republican politicians entering the 2008 races will now reevaluate whether Rove’s brain is large [Read More]

I recently met a woman who told me that I am an “old soul.” “No, I am young! Much younger than you think!,” I retorted.  But she would be pleased to learn that a priest by the name of Peter Murmann existed in the 14th century who founded a cloister called Klosterli in the [Read More]

This is a good story. I wish I had written it. By JANE GORDON (NYT) FOR years, Charley Wininger, a Gestalt psychotherapist and dating coach in Brooklyn, had wined and dined serious, intellectual women. A hippie who recalls being gassed while protesting the Vietnam War, he has always been passionate about politics and philosophy. He has [Read More]

On a beautiful summer day, when I was six or seven, my grandfather took me swimming. This gave me the opportunity to examine every feature of his body. Previously I had already noticed that, unlike any other human being I had laid eyes on, grandpa distinguished himself by growing extremely bushy and wavy eyebrows. Not [Read More]