Lie of the land

In his new film, The Invention of Lying, Ricky Gervais plays Mark Bellison, a pudgy everyman who lives in Anytown in a utopian world where lies don’t exist—until he tells one.

Hog wild!

There was a discordant chorus of queasy squealing earlier this year, when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced that “food from cattle, swine and goat clones is as safe to eat as that from their more conventionally bred counterparts.” Many carnivores, it seems, remain unwilling to munch on meat that’s been replicated with genetic […]