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We’re getting wildly differing assessments

The announcement of the Supreme Court’s decision largely upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of Thursday, June 28 precipitated a genuine media drama.  Millions tuned…
LENGTH: 28 minutes (7062 words)

Brain Pickings' Maria Popova

Brain Pickings’ Maria Popova: My Top 5 Longreads of 2011 Maria Popova is the founder and editor in chief of Brain Pickings, a writer for Wired UK, Design Observer, and The Atlantic, among…
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LENGTH: 3 minutes (973 words)

The Second Second Date Story

So the way my father used to tell it, my parents second date went something like this: My father was positively smitten after his blind date with my mother, and wanting to spend as much time with…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 6, 2011
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1861 words)
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