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Poetry Changed the World

JULY/AUGUST 2012 Injury and the Ethics of Reading Elaine ScarryDetail from Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meung’s Le Roman de la Rose, Paris, 1348 / Bodleian Libraries, Oxford What is the…
LENGTH: 19 minutes (4836 words)

What Does It Mean To Be Human? A Historical Perspective 1800-2011

09 DECEMBER, 2011 by Maria Popova What Aristotle has to do with the women’s suffrage movement, Darwin, and M. C. Escher. Last year, we explored what it means to be human from the perspectives…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 9, 2011
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1485 words)

How the Joy of Sex was illustrated

26 October 2011 Last updated at 05:35 ET By Cordelia Hebblethwaite BBC World…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1946 words)

Hacked!

On April 13 of this year, a Wednesday, my wife got up later than usual and didnt check her email until around 8:30 a.m. The previous night, she had put her computer to sleep, rather than…
LENGTH: 30 minutes (7601 words)
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