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Science Journalism and the Inner Swine Dog

A search of the PubMed database, which indexes scholarly biomedical articles, reveals that 997,508 articles were published in the year 2011, which amounts to roughly 2,700 articles per day. Since the…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2340 words)

Whistling Pigs: German Adventures with Google Translate

Bilingual or multilingual friends can be quite annoying. Especially if you’re stuck at a social gathering with the ones who repeatedly mention their language skills and utter phrases such as…
AUTHOR:Sisyphos
PUBLISHED: Oct. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2479 words)

Tim Burton: 'The love and life and death stuff was stewing from the start'

Tim Burton in the walled garden of his offices in north London: 'People definitely believe they hear things here at night, but it's a good vibe.' Photograph for the Observer by Richard Saker
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: Oct. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3010 words)

Philip Hensher: Why handwriting matters

A postcard written by Hitler in January 1915. His writing style indicates his megalomaniacal psychopathy, say graphologists. Photograph: The Granger Collection / TopFoto About six months ago, I…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3764 words)

Neolithic discovery: why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain

Circle of life: the Ring of Brodgar – a stone circle, or henge – is a World Heritage Site. Photograph: Adam Stanford Drive west from Orkney's capital, Kirkwall, and then head north on the narrow…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2053 words)

BB King at 87: the last of the great bluesmen

Guitar man: BB King performing live onstage at the Royal Albert Hall, 2011. Photograph: Kevin Nixon/Guitarist The fat red sun settles itself against the horizon, throwing a last, honey-sweet light…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4658 words)

Pakistan's Sufis Preach Faith and Ecstasy

In the desert swelter of southern Pakistan, the scent of rose­water mixed with a waft of hashish smoke. Drummers pounded away as celebrants swathed in red pushed a camel bedecked with garlands,…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5087 words)

The Holy Grail of the Unconscious

This is a story about a nearly 100-year-old book, bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 20, 2009
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8135 words)

Factory Girls

It was five o’clock on a Sunday in May, two hours before showtime, but already thousands of K-pop fans had flooded the concrete playa outside the Honda Center, a large arena in Anaheim, California.…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7108 words)
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