Nimoy is Spock, Spock is Nimoy

Everybody on the planet knows that Gene Roddenberry created Mr. Spock, the laconic, imperturbable extra-terrestrial First Officer for the Starship Enterprise. But Mr. Spock doesn’t belong to Roddenberry, even though…

Sex And The Older Woman

At 75 Sarah* seldom sees women her age held up by the wider world as attractive, let alone sexually desirable, but desire, she says, doesn’t fade with age. “It’s not…

Can this cream remove your tattoo?

That’s where Canadian graduate student Alec Falkenham enters the picture. Falkenham, a Ph.D. student in pathology at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia, has developed a technique that doesn’t involve…

12 Top Titles For Teens This Month

Originally published on Kirkus February may be the shortest month, but that doesn’t mean there’s any shortage of great books for teens. From survival adventure to magical realism, from real-world…