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The World in Its Extreme - 91.11

For me the flight was a luxury. I leaned over the ventilator and enjoyed the coolness, knowing it wouldn't last. We had come to a road called the Trans-Saharan, a faint scar running north-south…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5117 words)

Slavoj Žižek: 'Humanity is OK, but 99% of people are boring idiots'

Slavoj Žižek at his home in Lubljana. Photograph: David Levene for the Guardian Slavoj Žižek doesn't know the door number of his own apartment in Ljubljana. "Doesn't matter," he tells the…
PUBLISHED: June 10, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2608 words)

The North West London Blues

The Victorian Society An 1894 drawing of Willesden Green Library Last time I was in Willesden Green I took my daughter to visit my mother. The sun was out. We wandered down Brondesbury Park towards…
PUBLISHED: June 2, 2012
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3366 words)

Dandelion Wine

Half a century ago, Ray Bradbury wrote about the golden elixir of his childhood. That story continues to travel around the world. Little did I know, as the old saying goes, that when publishing my…
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1024 words)

The Electric Typewriter

A Tetw reading list The Blind Man Who Learned To See by Michael Finkel - A fascinating profile of a man who is helping other blind people to see using echolocation. Mixed Feelings by…

How To Bully Children

I do a lot of pretty random stupid shit thinking that I will write about it. Most of my activities turn out to be useless, though there’s always the idea that I could hit upon something so I…
PUBLISHED: March 13, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4107 words)

How U.S. Lost Out on iPhone Work

People flooded Foxconn Technology with résumés at a 2010 job fair in Henan Province, China. When Barack Obama joined Silicon Valley’s top luminaries for dinner in California…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4620 words)

lust and liberty in the 18th century

We believe in sexual freedom. We take it for granted that consenting men and women have the right to do what they like with their bodies. Sex is everywhere in our culture. We love to think and talk…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4053 words)

The Greatest Running Shoe Never Sold

Late one night in August 1997, 54-year-old inventor Lenn Rockford Hann placed two bottles of Gatorade near Concourse F of Chicago O’Hare International Airport, unlaced his sneakers,…
AUTHOR:Bob Parks
PUBLISHED: Jan. 12, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2041 words)
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