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When A 10-Year-Old Kills His Nazi Father, Who's To Blame?

Image by Johan Persson/Kontinent/Redux Two flags dangle from a banister into the middle of a living room in a modest two-story suburban home in Riverside — one of the far-flung exurbs of Southern…
SOURCE:BuzzFeed
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6342 words)

Scientific families: Dynasty

Bob Paine's academic family tree, drawn by Marian Kohn in 1999 MARIAN A KOHN Bob Paine is nearly 2 metres tall and has a powerful grip. The ochre sea star, however, has five sucker-lined arms and can…
AUTHOR:Ed Yong
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3317 words)
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The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder

(Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine) Late on the night of December 15, 2010, Trevell Coleman stepped out of the subway station at East 116th Street. The evening was bitterly…
PUBLISHED: Nov. 18, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (833 words)
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Ice

Minya Konka, Sichuan, China. [Photo by Jacboo]Of the many sacred mountains of Buddhism, the holiest is Mount Kailash in Western Tibet, where the Ganges, the Brahmaputra, the Indus and the Sutlej all…
LENGTH: 33 minutes (8424 words)
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The story of Nokia MeeGo

On February 11th, 2011, Nokia published its new strategy and made a co-operation agreement with Microsoft. Windows Phone operating system was chosen as the new platform for Nokia smartphones. MeeGo…
LENGTH: 29 minutes (7324 words)

Arrestation du « viking » guatémaltèque, par Grégory Lassalle (Le Monde diplomatique)

Le 31 août 2004, neuf paysans guatémaltèques mouraient lors d’un affrontement avec les forces de l’ordre. Huit ans plus tard, le 31 août 2012, alors que…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 9, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2666 words)

General: ‘My Career Was Done’ When I Criticized Flawed Warplane

Don Harvel, near his home in Georgia. Photo: Kendrick Brinson/Wired Don Harvel thought he was cruising to a well-deserved retirement after 35 years flying cargo planes for the U.S. Air Force. Then in…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 4, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2543 words)

Défense et illustration du Joker

Batman, le chevalier obscur Plus que toute autre forme de bande dessinée, le comic-book possède certains mécanismes narratifs qui lui sont absolument propres et qui offrent des…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3471 words)
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Stanford, paradis pour génies

Une voiture sans chauffeur ? On en parle depuis très longtemps, mais sur le campus de Stanford cette idée est presque une réalité. Et elle a déjà un nom de code. "On l'a…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 23, 2012
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2413 words)
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