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Frozen dead guys

Boulder, Colorado, 1989: the young Norwegian’s phone rang. On the line was his mother in Oslo, where it was already evening; dark with a November chill. She needed to tell him that his beloved…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4297 words)

Stonehenge and the Imagination

Geoffrey Grigson explores how a variety of views of Stonehenge has surfaced, and re-surfaced, in popular literature over time. Why, almost alone of the megalithic structures of pre-history, was…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 7, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3959 words)

The Extraordinary Science of Addictive Junk Food

On the evening of April 8, 1999, a long line of Town Cars and taxis pulled up to the Minneapolis headquarters of Pillsbury and discharged 11 men who controlled America’s largest food…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 20, 2013
LENGTH: 38 minutes (9606 words)

A Reasonable Amount of Trouble

In the 1920s, American fiction desperately needed its own private detective. It was overrun with Sherlock Holmes imitators–erudite puzzle solvers who refused to get their hands dirty. Enter…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1449 words)

On Alexander Pushkin | Open Letters Monthly - an Arts and Literature Review

Sitting down with Alexander Pushkin for tea, as I did recently, is probably as close as I will ever come to communing with a supreme creative mind of the past. This Pushkin is the great-grandson of…
LENGTH: 20 minutes (5151 words)
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Rough Cut

SURAT, India — The Gujarat Mail is just another red-eye train. Twelve powder-blue passenger cars crisscrossing, like so many hundreds of others, India's northwestern breadbasket through the…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 2, 2013
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3432 words)

The European Citizen: Just a Myth?

As Jürgen Habermas’ new book "The Crisis of the European Union: A Response" arrived at bookstores, The Global Journal asked Francis Fukuyama to interview the German philosopher,…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2870 words)
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The Charms of Christmas Ephemera and the Changing Face of Santa Claus

By Maribeth Keane and Jessica Lewis Dolph Gotelli is a professor emeritus of design at the University of California, Davis. Gotelli is well known in the Christmas community for his elaborate…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4016 words)
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