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Weekend Reads: A Vulture Vomits, a Koala Attacks, 100 Chimps Find Freedom

Weekend Reads: A Vulture Vomits, a Koala Attacks, 100 Chimps Find Freedom Five #greenreads to wash down with copious amounts of Guinness and worrying amounts of green food coloring.Jonathan Mingle at…
PUBLISHED: March 15, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (864 words)

Afghan Women Face the Future

This is a personal story, and it’s hard to tell because nobody knows how it will end. I first went to Afghanistan in 2002, where I volunteered with two small nongovernmental organizations…
AUTHOR:Ann Jones
PUBLISHED: March 5, 2013
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1064 words)

For 40 Years, This Russian Family Was Cut Off From All Human Contact, Unaware of World War II

Siberian summers do not last long. The snows linger into May, and the cold weather returns again during September, freezing the taiga into a still life awesome in its desolation: endless miles of…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 3, 2013
LENGTH: 27 minutes (6897 words)

Some Favorite Longreads from the Archive

This holiday season offers a chance for many of us to curl up by the fireplace (or noisy heating unit) and read some of the longer articles and Profiles we’ve missed during previous years.…
PUBLISHED: Dec. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1478 words)

Quantum cryptography: yesterday, today, and tomorrow

Aurich Lawson Quantum cryptography is one of those amazing tools that came along before anyone really asked for it. Somehow there are companies out there selling very high end, and "provably secure"…
AUTHOR:Chris Lee
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1803 words)

The Forms of Things Unknown: A 1963 Essay on the Role of the Creative Arts in Society

“Art must lead beyond the arts, to an awareness and a share of mutuality.” In 1963, English anarchist, poet, and culture critic Herbert Read penned The Forms of Things Unknown: An Essay on the Impact…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1461 words)

Dictatorship of the Proletariat in Gotham City | Slavoj Žižek on ‘The Dark Knight Rises’

By Slavoj Žižek. Exclusive on Boitempo’s Blog. Para a versão em português, clique aqui. Warning: the following article contains spoilers of The Dark Knight Trilogy. …
PUBLISHED: Aug. 8, 2012
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4457 words)

Very Superstitious

In September 1863, a local paper in Somerset, England, ran an article about a man and a woman from Taunton whose child had been stricken with scarlet fever. Depressingly common, a child suffering…
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3904 words)

Seduction Therapy: Can Men Be Treated by Female Psychiatrists?

My girlfriend argued no man could be treated by a female therapist because complications due to sexual desire would impede every discussion One night less than two years ago, intoxicated on cheap…
LENGTH: 5 minutes (1343 words)
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