Stephen Lynch
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Under the dome
November 8, 2009 | 5:51amStop me if you’ve heard this one before. A small town in Maine. Strange, perhaps supernatural, forces at work. A ragtag group of good-hearted people battle the forces of evil...
THE ENGLISH CONQUEST
May 16, 2009 | 3:38pmAbout a decade ago, while backpacking with a group of friends, I arrived late one evening in front of a sausage stand in Vienna. We picked through our pockets, trying...
THE FIVE-YEAR MARRIAGE
April 26, 2009 | 5:52am'Til death do us part -- or at least until the contract expires. Australian academic Helen Goltz has proposed a shortening of bonds of matrimony, arguing, "We have fixed term-contracts...
A SEC TAX JOKE
April 5, 2009 | 8:40amIf you're lucky enough to get a refund from the federal government this year on your taxes, enjoy the added comedy benefit -- a "savings and investment tips" flier from...
DAYLIGHT SAVINGS: A SPRING BACK
March 8, 2009 | 3:12amSunday we participate in that biannual folly: Daylight Savings Time. First conceived by Benjamin Franklin as a conservation measure (think of all the candle wax we'll save!), it's become little...
THE FUTURE OF TELEVISION
February 8, 2009 | 7:03amFor a long, dreamlike week now, I've been watching the future of television. It started when I bought a device called AppleTV, a $230 mini-computer that plugs into your television...
THE NEXT 100 YEARS
February 1, 2009 | 6:37amBuck up, Americans. Things may look bleak now, but George Friedman, founder of Strategic Forecasting, Inc., a private intelligence agency sometimes called the "Shadow CIA," sees great things ahead. In...
STRAD TO THE BONE
January 25, 2009 | 5:45amWhat makes a Strad a Strad? The question has haunted musicians, historians and craftsmen, who puzzle why the most beautiful-sounding violins in history came from the hands of Antonio Stradivari...
'LOST' IN TIME
January 18, 2009 | 5:00amTo understand most shows, all you need is time, a television and the ability to understand English. For "Lost," we needed two physics professors. Luckily for The Post, Dr. Michio...
'SMALLVILLE' GROWS UP
January 11, 2009 | 5:00amFire up the Bat Signal, turn on Jimmy Olsen's watch, summon your underwater friends - comic book geeks, it's time to visit "Smallville." I know, I know. You've been burned...
SECRETS OF THE GODFATHER
December 13, 2008 | 7:35pmSkip the horse heads in our beds - for "Godfather" fans (that is, pretty much every man in America), there's no way to refuse the offer of "The Godfather Family...
WAGES OF MINIMUMS
November 30, 2008 | 9:09amPretty much everyone with credit card debt knows that paying only the minimum due each month is a formula for disaster. But borrowers may not know that they should ignore...
GREAT JINGLE (JUST IGNORE THE LYRICS)
November 23, 2008 | 9:18amFor those of a certain age, Toyota's ubiquitous "Saved By Zero" commercials are torture of the highest order. It's not simply that they air about every two minutes. It's that...
SHE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU
November 16, 2008 | 11:35amSorry, guys - she's not winking, she just has something in her eye.A study by researchers at Indiana University and Humboldt University of Berlin found that it's easier to figure...
TROUBLE-07
November 9, 2008 | 7:46amTHE affable Roger Moore holds the record for playing James Bond, having taken on seven missions to save the world from men with prominent scars and underwater lairs. He has...
THE SECRET OF SUCCESS
November 2, 2008 | 12:02amContrary to the hardworking, salt-of-the-earth stereotype of the downtrodden peasant, the farmers of old were lazy. In 19th century Flanders, laborers spent a few hours in the fields each morning...
EDUCATING PETER
October 19, 2008 | 8:30amWine is a conundrum, Lettie Teague admits. Choosing one is complicated, puzzling and - when faced with the judgmental sneer of the wrong sommelier - stressful. At the same time,...
HOW BIN LADEN GOT AWAY
October 4, 2008 | 7:14pmTaking cover behind a small earthen schoolhouse in Tora Bora, Afghanistan, a message crackles over a Delta Force unit radio: "Father is trying to break through the siege line." Adrenaline...
SNOPES.COM GRINDS DOWN THE RUMOR MILL
September 14, 2008 | 8:23amIt's the doctored pictures that puzzle David Mikkelson the most. "How can anyone think Bush is really holding a book upside down?" asks the co-founder of rumor-debunking site Snopes.com. "But...
TIME ON YOUR SIDE
August 10, 2008 | 7:44amMen aren't really from Mars, women aren't really from Venus, but you and your spouse may be from different time zones. Most of what constitutes compatibility in a relationship -...