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China's barbaric one-child policy

Jin Yani, who was forced to abort her baby nine months into her pregnancy. Photograph: Sinopix/Rex Features In China, procreation and childbirth are, like every facet of human life, deeply political.…
AUTHOR:Ma Jian
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2821 words)

Kaesong: crucible for inter-Korean frustration

South Korea is offering $270m (£174m) of support to companies locked out of the jointly run industrial zone at Kaesong, inside North Korea. But will it be enough to offset the tarnished image of…
PUBLISHED: May 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1141 words)

A killer in the family

(CNN) -- "Missy, you need to change your last name," the shackled man in the orange prison jumpsuit said into the receiver, staring blankly at his 15-year-old daughter's tear-stained face. "That's…
SOURCE:CNN
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1806 words)

The Professor, the Bikini Model and the Suitcase Full of Trouble

In November 2011, Paul Frampton, a theoretical particle physicist, met Denise Milani, a Czech bikini model, on the online dating site Mate1.com. She was gorgeous — dark-haired and dark-eyed,…
PUBLISHED: March 8, 2013
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5767 words)

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)

The Post-Apocalypse Survival Machine Nerd Farm

Marcin Jakubowski sits cross-legged on the dirt floor of a round hut in Missouri farm country, carefully making an open-faced mayo and cheddar sandwich. Inside the hut there’s a bed, a small…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2493 words)

Is College a Lousy Investment?

Why are we spending so much money on college? And why are we so unhappy about it? We all seem to agree that a college education is wonderful, and yet strangely we worry when we see families investing…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2710 words)
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Philosophy v science: which can answer the big questions of life?

Julian Baggini No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science. When physics is compared with the…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2785 words)

Autumn of the Patriarch, Forgetting to Live

When critics attempt to account for the genesis of Gabriel García Márquez’ One Hundred Years of Solitude (a sort of Genesis text in its own right), there are two easy…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4889 words)
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