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February 01 2010

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January 25 2010

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Lisa Robinson: Boogie Nights

It became known, and ultimately reviled, as Disco. But the music that surged out of gay underground New York clubs such as the Loft and 12 West in the early 70s was the sound of those who wanted to dance, dance, dance.
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Richard Martin: Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke

If the US reactor fleet could be converted to LFTRs overnight, existing thorium reserves would power the US for a thousand years.
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Ellen McGirt: Mr. Social: Ashton Kutcher Plans to Be the Next New-Media Mogul

Here's what scares Kutcher: "When I have a conversation with someone and they say, 'I'm not worried about monetization yet.' "
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Nick Paumgarten: Food Fighter

Does Whole Foods’ C.E.O. know what’s best for you?
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Paul Morley: On gospel, Abba and the death of the record: an audience with Brian Eno

He's been a Roxy original, the inventor of 'ambient', Bowie's muse, the brain in Talking Heads and U2's 'fifth man'. Now Eno tells us where he's heading next.
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January 18 2010

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Jonah Lehrer: Accept Defeat - The Neuroscience of Screwing Up

Experiments rarely tell us what we expect. That's the dirty secret of science.
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John Colapinto: Lunch with M.

Undercover with a Michelin inspector.
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Mark Ames: Cerberus Capital - Literally Blood-Sucking the Poor to Make Their Billions

Mark Ames was founder and editor of The eXile, the notorious Moscow-based, English-language newspaper shuttered last year after a raid by Russian authorities.
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The unrepentant chocolatier

The world’s biggest food company is betting on an emerging class of health and nutrition products to spur its growth. But risks abound.

January 12 2010

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January 03 2010

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Doctorow's Project: With a Little Help

Cory Doctorow kicks off a unique publishing experiment.
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John Lanchester: Bankocracy

In the meantime, perhaps we should try and think of a name for the new economic system, which certainly isn’t capitalism: that, remember, is all about ‘creative destruction’, and the freedom to fail. That’s exactly what we don’t have. The most a
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Hadley Leggett: Baby-by-Number: Parents’ New Obsession With Data

What parents need is a good inoculation of common sense and some self-esteem, to realize that they can do this without a tool. Just because we have computers and hand-held devices, doesn’t mean we need a tracking device.
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Sally Singer: Machine Dreams

At 34, Marissa Mayer is possibly the world's most poised and powerful information guru. What makes this woman click?
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Raymond T. Pierrehumbert: An open letter to Steve Levitt

May I suggest that if you should happen to need some friendly help next time you take on the topic of climate change, or would like to have a chat about why aerosol geoengineering might not be a cure-all, or just need a critical but informed opponent to b

December 11 2009

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James Bamford: Who's in Big Brother's Database?

Roughly equal to about a septillion (1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) pages of text, numbers beyond Yottabytes haven't yet been named.
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Michael Chorost: Algae and Light Help Injured Mice Walk Again

Treating Parkinson’s and other brain diseases could be just the beginning. Optogenetics has amazing potential, not just for sending information into the brain but also for extracting it.
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John Lanchester: Bond in Torment

The in-flight consumption is in line with Bond’s general boozing level, established during a medical he undergoes in one of the books as half a bottle of spirits a day. He also smokes between sixty and seventy cigarettes, so I ask again, how pickled do

November 25 2009

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Steven Levy: Mob Rule! How Users Took Over Twitter

Twitter’s evolution spawned a new grammar, and the Twitter community created many of the conventions now integral to the service.
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