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...real life sounds suspiciously like a Hollywood plot to humanize that old guy with the long gray beard. There's nothing inherently wrong with that. After all, who doesn't want to know more about the softer side of the man still causing a ruckus at school-board meetings across the land more than a century after his death? But the movie has an appalling narrative structure. We meet the little girl, admire her ready smile and, as the time frames shift, quickly realize she's doomed. (First clue: excessive cuteness. Second clue: Other Daughter's pointing out that Daddy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Creation: The Origin of Darwin's Origin of Species | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

When Joz Wang and her brother bought their mom a Nikon Coolpix S630 digital camera for Mother's Day last year, they discovered what seemed to be a malfunction. Every time they took a portrait of each other smiling, a message flashed across the screen asking, "Did someone blink?" No one had. "I thought the camera was broken!" Wang, 33, recalls. But when her brother posed with his eyes open so wide that he looked "bug-eyed," the messages stopped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Are Face-Detection Cameras Racist? | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...studies released this week have moved the ball significantly forward, however. The first, appearing in Science, says the frequency of Atlantic hurricanes will actually decrease during this century but that the most powerful Category 4 and 5 storms will likely double in number. (See pictures of Hurricane Ike sweeping across the Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Studies Predict Fewer but Stronger Hurricanes | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

...range of mini-courses suggests a broad appeal across disciplines, with subject areas running the gamut from textiles and modern American Jewish culture, to stem cells and experimental approaches to mathematics...

Author: By Kerry K. Clark, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: GSAS Offers Mini-Courses During January | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

When Michigan's lieutenant governor, John Cherry, announced earlier this month that he wouldn't seek the state's top elected post, Democrats here and across the country sighed in relief. Though Cherry was the ostensible front runner to succeed Jennifer Granholm, a fellow Democrat, he couldn't muster enough interest, or money, to wage a credible campaign. Cherry's departure effectively opens what's expected to be a fierce primary battle between two ambitious, business-minded Democrats for the task of keeping Michigan's governor's seat in the party's hands...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Michigan's Governor's Race Tests the Democrats | 1/22/2010 | See Source »

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