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...attempt to catalog all the ways that Americans can go crazy dates at least to 1840, when the Census included a question on "idiocy/insanity." From those two simple categories, we now have more than 300 separate disorders; they are listed in a 943-page book called the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, or DSM for short. The book is important because doctors, insurers and researchers all over the world use it as a reference, a dictionary of everything humanity considers to be mentally unbalanced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The DSM: How Psychiatrists Redefine 'Disordered' | 2/13/2010 | See Source »

Though Pinker mentions Goldstein as his wife only in the “long bio” section of his Web site, he proudly advertises Goldstein's new book, “36 Arguments for the Existence of God,” on his welcome page...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby (with Pinker’s Wife) | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

...fretting over your sorry love lives, take heart (and start writing some New York Times best-sellers). This marriage of the minds should show you that love and intellect do mix, and that all you need to find that someone special is some crazy hair and your own Wikipedia page. Easy, right...

Author: By Keren E. Rohe, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Let’s Talk About Love, Baby (with Pinker’s Wife) | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

Simmons’ campaign manager Neal Alpert has created a Facebook fan page for his boss, and he said at the time of yesterday’s interview that he hoped to unveil a campaign Web site that night and more campaign literature in the weeks to come...

Author: By Julie M. Zauzmer, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Former Mayor Simmons To Run for Senate | 2/12/2010 | See Source »

Confused? So was the journalist who unearthed the blunder on page 122 of Lévy's slim new treatise called On War in Philosophy. There, Lévy quotes the fine insights of a French writer named Jean-Baptiste Botul on the 18th-century German philosopher Immanuel Kant. But Botul, it turns out, is not a real person - he's a fictional character created five years ago by Frédéric Pagès, a journalist at the French satirical weekly Le Canard Enchaîné. Using Botul as a pseudonym, Pagès published...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A French Philosopher Duped by a Fictional Character | 2/10/2010 | See Source »

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