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Survivors

Years ago, along the cacophonous roads leading from Ramses Train Station in Cairo, I came across a small girl with a bright red headscarf weaving her way in and out of the slow-moving traffic, her…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4273 words)

What Might Have Happened Upstairs

One good thing about volcanic eruptions is that they rarely come without warning. Days or weeks of insistent rumbling, smoke pouring ever more energetically from the crater, followed by a few light…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2826 words)

The Ancient Library of Alexandria

J. Harold Ellens   •  05/01/2013 J. Harold Ellens’s article “The Ancient Library of Alexandria” originally appeared in Bible Review, along with the sidebars…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7237 words)

Specimens

I’ve been nursing a gentle obsession with a quartet of bone-white, thumb-sized figurines. I first saw them, lined up in a row, on the cover of Miguel Tamen’s book Friends of…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 23 minutes (5766 words)

The Problem With How We Treat Bipolar Disorder

The last time I saw my old self, I was 27 years old and living in Boston. I was doing well in graduate school, had a tight circle of friends and was a prolific creative writer. Married to my…
PUBLISHED: April 26, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (761 words)

On the Brink of Extinction: A Closer Look at Endangered Species

Many naturalists and certainly most birding aficionados are well aware that the last passenger pigeon died in 1914 while in residence at the Cincinnati Zoo.  And I regretfully acknowledge that…
PUBLISHED: April 5, 2013
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4018 words)
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Valley of the Whales

Published: August 2010 An Egyptian desert, once an ocean, holds the secret to one of evolution’s most remarkable transformations.By Tom Mueller Photograph by Richard Barnes Thirty-seven million…
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Sam Parnia – the man who could bring you back from the dead

Sam Parnia: 'When consciousness shuts down in death, your psyche, or soul, persists for at least the hours before resuscitation.'        Photograph: Martin Adolfsson Sam Parnia MD has a highly sought…
AUTHOR:Tim Adams
PUBLISHED: April 6, 2013
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2402 words)

The University vs. the Internet

In the spring of 2011, Sebastian Thrun was having doubts about whether the classroom was really the right place to teach his course on artificial intelligence. Thrun, a computer-science professor at…
PUBLISHED: March 31, 2013
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3859 words)
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