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The Gift of Doubt

While we are rather willing and even eager and relieved to agree with a historian’s finding that we stumbled into the more shameful events of history, such as war, we are correspondingly unwilling to…
PUBLISHED: June 24, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1048 words)

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)
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