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A Pickpocket’s Tale

A few years ago, at a Las Vegas convention for magicians, Penn Jillette, of the act Penn and Teller, was introduced to a soft-spoken young man named Apollo Robbins, who has a reputation as a…
AUTHOR:Adam Green
PUBLISHED: Jan. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8104 words)

BODYBUILDING AND NATION-BUILDING

At first sight the search for peace and stability in Iraq, and the search for physical and mental fitness in the extreme contortions of modern Yoga seem to have absolutely nothing in common.
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PUBLISHED: March 27, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5206 words)

Darwin's city

Published online 8 June 2011 | Nature 474, 146-149 (2011) | doi:10.1038/474146a David Sloan Wilson is using the lens of evolution to…
PUBLISHED: June 8, 2011
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2982 words)
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