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Director's Cut: ‘The Kentucky Derby Is Decadent and Depraved,’ by Hunter S. Thompson

The telephone rang at Warren Hinckle's San Francisco home at about 3:30 in the morning on Wednesday, April 29, 1970. When Hinckle picked up the receiver, he heard the unmistakable voice of Hunter S.…
PUBLISHED: May 4, 2012
LENGTH: 32 minutes (8189 words)
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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: 16 minutes (4101 words)

Death Becomes Me

The first time I died, I was twelve years old.My friend, Peter Archambault, and I were riding our bikes on Ascension Street in Blackstone, Massachusetts, when we decided to toss our bikes over a…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3969 words)

Inviting Machines Into Our Bodies | Hybrid Reality

By Chris Arkenberg  In what amounts to a fairly shocking reminder of how quickly our technologies are advancing and how deeply our lives are being woven with networked computation, security…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (479 words)

Saddam Hussein’s Speeches on Democracy (1977-1978)

“The question of democracy is an extremely complicated one. It needs your great concern.” “We aspire to make the child a source of enlightenment within the family, which includes his parents and his…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 2, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2831 words)

The Art of Scientific Investigation (1957), Part I: The Role of Chance-Opportunism and Openness in Creativity and Discovery

“To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.” What a magical Rube Goldberg machine of discovery…
PUBLISHED: May 25, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1742 words)

'I Was There': On Kurt Vonnegut

“The cruelest thing you can do to Kerouac,” Hanif Kureishi has a character say in The Buddha of Suburbia, “is reread him at thirty-eight.” If that was true, I wondered as…
LENGTH: 24 minutes (6054 words)
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