IN THE MAGAZINES . . . Stuck in haze of weblogs? Take a break with these articles from the magazines, all absolutely free--

Your DNA Knows Reading your genomic profile. [Wired]

Aliens Among Us Figuring out how life began. [Scientific American]

Why He Was Like a Vampire Picasso's middle years. [The New York Review of Books]

It's His Business to Know Such Things A profile of Jacques Barzun. [The New Yorker]

Look It Up Gifts for language lovers. [The New York Times Magazine]