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I Read Everything Janet Malcolm Ever Published

Author Janet Malcolm Photo by Kevin Sturman The most exciting-to-read works of journalism often betray little evidence of how tedious they were to report. Baroque murder trials come with thousands of…
PUBLISHED: May 3, 2013
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2834 words)

The Prophets of Oak Ridge

by Dan Zak Last summer, in the dead of night, three peace activists penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. A…
AUTHOR:Dan Zak
PUBLISHED: April 29, 2013
LENGTH: 37 minutes (9422 words)

The Passion of Lew Wallace

Gen. Lew Wallace, circa 1861. Courtesy of Brady-Handy Photograph Collection/Library of Congress
PUBLISHED: March 26, 2013
LENGTH: 42 minutes (10653 words)

Reading Pinocchio in the ER

Wolfgang Nehring Courtesy of Cristina Nehring Life is fragile, use it roughly. Wrest from it all you can. Love in it what you’ve got. For once it begins to end, the greens in your fridge will rot…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 28, 2013
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1942 words)

The Robot Will See You Now

harley lukov didn’t need a miracle. He just needed the right diagnosis. Lukov, a 62-year-old from central New Jersey, had stopped smoking 10 years earlier—fulfilling a promise he’d made to his…
PUBLISHED: March 21, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3477 words)

When Brain Damage Unlocks The Genius Within

Brain damage has unleashed extraordinary talents in a small group of otherwise ordinary individuals. Will science find a way for everyone to tap their inner virtuoso? By Adam Piore Posted 02.19.2013…
AUTHOR:Adam Piore
LENGTH: 3 minutes (854 words)

America's Hardest Working Know-It-All

Ken Jennings will admit that during his record-setting Jeopardy run of 74 straight wins in 2004, he lied to Alex Trebek. It was about airline food. The host was interviewing him after the show's…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3568 words)

When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
AUTHOR:NatashaVC
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6352 words)

The Idealist

Aaron Swartz at a Boston Wiki Meetup on Aug. 19, 2009 Photo by Sage Ross/Flickr/Wikimedia Commons On Jan.
PUBLISHED: Feb. 7, 2013
LENGTH: 58 minutes (14593 words)
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