There’s a new cooking show on the radio: “Anthony Bourdain and Eric Ripert: Turn & Burn” will run for five weeks; its first episode aired last night. The featured guest was celebrity chef Mario Batali. I was way too busy preparing for the men’s figure skating finals to tune in, and I don’t have Sirius [...]

I was driving forty minutes to campus last night and fiddling with the radio. The CD player is broken and there’s no mp3 or satellite radio hooked up, so it was radio or nothing. Panicky and distracted, I remembered reading earlier on cracked.com that listening to music can help calm down people with brain issues, [...]