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...Musicophilia, as in the books that made his literary name, Awakenings and The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Sacks dives into the crevices of the human mind in search of a cure and surfaces with enlightenment for us all. We are irritatedly familiar, for example, with the phenomenon of earworms - catchy tunes that loop in our heads, even when we detest them. This "defenseless engraving of music on the brain," Sacks suggests, is a result of the precision with which most of us can replay music internally; built to seek stimuli, the brain rewards itself...
Though there's a science to using search-term data to predict reality show outcomes, that same kind of data is probably too confounding to provide any real insight into which candidates will get nominated or who will ultimately win the 2008 presidential race. Still, there's no harm in guessing - or in taking a look at what the American public really wants to know. In a previous article, I revealed the most popular searched-on issues in relation to each of the presidential hopefuls. Now, somewhere over Colorado, I'm sifting through thousands of these one-off searches, hoping...
Most people searching on Barack Obama want to read his bio; many other queries focus on his religious beliefs, likely spurred by the allegation that he attended a radical Islamic madrassa during his childhood, which was later revealed to be false. A deeper look at the search-term data unearthed a wide interest in the American flag pin that disappeared from Obama's lapel last month...
...nothing else, one thing's clear from the search-term data: Voters' minds are a virtual soup (or casserole, depending on your ideology) of both relevant and bizarrely irrelevant issues. I can't tell you who will win, or why, but I hope our next leader will be elected on the basis of his or her foreign and domestic policies, rather than dish seasonings or cross-dressing skills...
...Senate. They also probably need better oversight while they are in office. Even in extraordinary situations - such as when an Integrity Committee headed by a senior FBI official recommended the dismissal of NASA's IG Robert Cobb because he had alerted the NASA administrator to audits and FBI search warrants, and allowed him to try to direct IG investigations - there is nothing forcing the agency director or President to remove...