Seattlest is on holiday today, so we'll be posting lightly. While you're enjoying this terrific three-day-weekend weather, give a moment to remembering those who suited up and served and died. CNN points out that Memorial Day's origins were an attempt to heal the wounds of the Civil War, so we present Walt Whitman's "Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night" after the jump. more ›

Jonah Lehrer, editor of Seed Magazine and author of the blog The Frontal Cortex has written a terrific book centered around this thesis: Creative people discovered truths about how our mind works well before scientists did. more ›

Ever get the feeling that food is no longer your friend? That while you used to have some laughs with Stouffer’s lasagne and chill out with your best friend Diet Coke, secretly food has been going behind your back, stealing your boyfriend, gunning for your job, and making you fat? more ›