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The Invention of David Bowie

David Bowie Is an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, March 23–August 11, 2013 Catalog edited by Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh, with contributions by Camille Paglia,…
AUTHOR:Ian Buruma
PUBLISHED: May 23, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4030 words)

Greed is Groupon: can anyone save the company from itself?

The team sitting around the table at Groupon’s Chicago headquarters in the early spring of 2011 were some of the brightest minds in technology and business. Marc Andreessen, the man who created the…
AUTHOR:Ben Popper
SOURCE:The Verge
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2013

Up All Night

Some people can’t go to sleep until late; others can’t sleep in. Both suffer “social jet lag.” Illustration by Nishant Choksi. Nathan
PUBLISHED: March 11, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3247 words)

How to Stop the Bullies

In the annals of middle-school mischief, the Facebook page Let’s Start Drama deserves an entry. The creator of the page—no one knew her name, but everyone was sure she was a girl—had a diabolical…
PUBLISHED: March 23, 2013
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6030 words)

White Moon Rising

First, a few basics about the Mongolian holiday Tsagaan Sar. Tsagaan means “white” and Sar can be translated as “month” or “moon”. The…
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1593 words)

The Robot Will See You Now

harley lukov didn’t need a miracle. He just needed the right diagnosis. Lukov, a 62-year-old from central New Jersey, had stopped smoking 10 years earlier—fulfilling a promise he’d made to his…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6774 words)

Libor Lies Revealed in Rigging of $300 Trillion Benchmark

Every morning, from his desk by the bathroom at the far end of Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc’s trading floor overlooking London’s Liverpool Street station, Paul White punched a…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4378 words)

Google and the future of search: Amit Singhal and the Knowledge Graph

Making connections: inside one of Google’s data centres, the Dalles, Oregon. Photograph: Google/Rex Features Thinking about Google over the last week, I have fallen into the typically procrastinatory…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Jan. 19, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4192 words)

What’s Inside America’s Banks?

The financial crisis had many causes—too much borrowing, foolish investments, misguided regulation—but at its core, the panic resulted from a lack of transparency. The reason no one…
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9413 words)
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