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The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder

The last time I saw my old self, I was 27 years old and living in Boston. I was doing well in graduate school, had a tight circle of friends and was a prolific creative writer. Married to my…
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (761 words)

The University vs. the Internet

In the spring of 2011, Sebastian Thrun was having doubts about whether the classroom was really the right place to teach his course on artificial intelligence. Thrun, a computer-science professor at…
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3859 words)

The Allergy Buster

Dr. Kari Nadeau, who is conducting a trial to desensitize children with multiple food allergies, with some of her patients. For nine years, the greatest challenge Kim Yates
PUBLISHED: March 7, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1032 words)

Mark Lynas: truth, treachery and GM food

Crop circles: Mark Lynas, who spent the 1990s tearing up fields of GM crops, was the first to point an accusatory finger at Monsanto. Photograph: Will Storr for the Observer What was that line in…
AUTHOR:Will Storr
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2787 words)

How Facebook could get you arrested

Companies such as Facebook have begun using algorithms and historical data to predict which of their users might commit crimes. Illustration: Noma Bar The police have a very bright future ahead of…
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2013
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3115 words)
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The tsunami survivor who lost her whole family

Sonali Deraniyagala, at home in New York: 'The book has allowed me to bring them close, to keep them close.' Photograph: Annie Collinge for the Observer What will you remember of the people you love?…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3768 words)

Evgeny Morozov: 'We are abandoning all the checks and balances'

Evgeny Morozov, author of The Net Delusion, in Washington. Photograph: Evelyn Hockstein/Polaris Evgeny Morozov is a Belarus-born technology writer who has held positions at Stanford and Georgetown…
AUTHOR:Ian Tucker
PUBLISHED: March 9, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2041 words)

From Elephants’ Mouths, an Illicit Trail to China

China’s hunger for ivory carvings is growing despite evidence that many tusks are taken illegally. PUZHAI, China — Chinese investors have anointed it “white gold.” Carvers…
AUTHOR:DAN LEVIN
PUBLISHED: March 1, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (775 words)

A Reader’s War

“Thanks to literature, to the consciousness it shapes, the desires and longings it inspires…civilization is now less cruel than when storytellers began to humanize life with their…
AUTHOR:Teju Cole
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2026 words)
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