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... I suck at making decisions. My younger brother, on the other hand, doesn’t. He slept with three women, decided he liked the third, and married her. This is despite our…
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We Jumped Off the Manhattan Bridge

One night in the summer of 1999 I jumped off the Manhattan Bridge. It wasn’t a suicide attempt—I had a bungee cord attached to my ankles. But it was still illegal and not part of any…
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How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

This 10,000-rpm, no-pulse artificial heart doesn't resemble an organic heart--and might be all the better for it Artificial Heart Jack Thompson Meeko the calf stood nuzzling a pile of hay. He…
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What Is Time? One Physicist Hunts for the Ultimate Theory

SAN DIEGO — One way to get noticed as a scientist is to tackle a really difficult problem. Physicist Sean Carroll has become a bit of a rock star in geek circles by attempting to answer an…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 26, 2010
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2343 words)
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The 21st-Century Education

A PARADOX of American higher education is this: The expectations of leading universities do much to define what secondary schools teach, and much to establish a template for what it means to be…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 20, 2012
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This Recording

The 100 Greatest Novels by ALEX CARNEVALE We can date back all of modern literature to Chekhov's novella My Life , which appeared in Russian in 1896. At about the same time the first translations of…
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A Biography of Class

1. Bleach My first connection to magazines, maybe my most immediate, is the smell of bleach. My father worked in a printers shop; it was a trade my mother had gotten him into, when she worked at a…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 8, 2011
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5803 words)

t.co / Twitter

Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant,…
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Reason Magazine

Rather more interesting than Super 8, the new J.J. Abrams movie, is the pictures backstory. As a kid in the mid-70s, Abrams began shooting little films with a Super 8 camera, that highly portable,…
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PUBLISHED: June 9, 2011
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