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TALES OF SALVADOR DALI'S DEMON BRIDE | FOR LUST OF MONEY AND MEN

Funny how often we automatically assume that long-standing, famous couples must be deeply devoted, madly in love, and happier than a couple of pigs in slop. Sometimes, like in the case of Salavador…
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4474 words)

Cleopatra's Daughter

While Antony and Cleopatra have been immortalised in history and in popular culture, their offspring have been all but forgotten. Yet their daughter, Cleopatra Selene, became an important ruler in…
PUBLISHED: March 18, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3494 words)

Long After the Storm: The Ongoing Struggle to Rebuild New Orleans

Wednesday, December 26, 2012 By Adventure Lab Planting bulrush in Bayou Sauvage. Photo: Joe Spring It's been seven years since Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, killing more than 1,800 people and…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2971 words)
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How the Tree Frog Has Redefined Our View of Biology

Karen Warkentin, wearing tall olive-green rubber boots, stands on the bank of a concrete-lined pond at the edge of the Panamanian rainforest. She pulls on a broad green leaf still attached to a…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6829 words)

Growing food in the desert: is this the solution to the world's food crisis?

Desert blooms: Philipp Saumweber, the founder and CEO of Sundrop, with a tray of his “perfect” produce. Photograph: Jonathan Margolis for the Observer The scrubby desert outside Port Augusta, three…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 24, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3037 words)

Leonard Cohen's hallelujah moment

It was a cold grey morning and starting to rain when Leonard Cohen walked down Hampstead High Street, clutching a suitcase and an address. It was just before Christmas 1959 and the windows of the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4801 words)

The kindness of beasts

When I became a father for the first time, at the ripe old age of 44, various historical contingencies saw to it that my nascent son would be sharing his home with two senescent canines. There was…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3684 words)

The Tragedy of Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Hans von Dohnanyi

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin/bpk/Rotraut Forberg/Art Resource Dietrich Bonhoeffer with his twin sister Sabine in London, just after his return from America and before his final return to Germany, July…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 25, 2012
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4902 words)

How Science Explains America’s Great Moral Divide

Jonathan Haidt Image: Daniel Addison Jonathan Haidt is concerned, like many Americans, with the way our country has become divided and increasingly unable to work together to solve looming threats.…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (878 words)
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