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Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3266 words)

Legends Never Die

Archival photos courtesy Gunars Elmuts; all other photos by Jonathan Weiskopf August 1990, St. Marks Place. Priscilla Forsyth, one month shy of her fourteenth birthday and just home from summer…
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6918 words)

LRB · Barbara Everett · Alphabeted: Coleridge the Modernist

Coleridge’s Notebooks: A Selection edited by Seamus Perry Oxford, 264 pp, £17.99, June 2002, ISBN 0 19 871201 4 The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Vol. XVI: Poetical Works I: Poems…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7708 words)

Molly Ringwald: your former teenage crush

Molly Ringwald in Marina del Rey, California. Photograph: Barry J Holmes Molly Ringwald peruses the rack of designer clothing pulled in as potential attire for her imminent photoshoot, noting to the…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 11, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2265 words)

Bread of Beirut

To mark the today’s publication of Anthony Shadid’s memoir House of Stone – which is full of the tastes and smells of traditional Lebanese cooking – Annia Ciezadlo takes…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2709 words)

The Art of the Rhymed Insult

In 1991, Elvis Mitchell, National Public Radio’s Weekend entertainment reporter, interviewed Spike Lee for Playboy magazine. “Lee,” Mitchell informed his readers, “has…
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7384 words)

The Mystery of 221B Baker Street

Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson drawn by Sidney Paget in The Adventure of Silver Blaze (image: Sidney Paget, Wikimedia commons) The Game is afoot, dear reader. For today, Design Decoded…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2500 words)

Once Upon a Time

The witch tests the apple for Snow White. In Grimms’ Fairy Tales there is a story called “The Stubborn Child” that
PUBLISHED: July 23, 2012
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5128 words)

Mad Men is back!

Don DraperA man to project your fantasies onWhat's it like to be too handsome? The actor who made his TV debut as "gorgeous guy at bar" in Ally McBeal in 1997 stops fiddling with his bagel and looks…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4026 words)
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