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Lyndon Baty and the Robot That Saved Him

If he has his act together, Lyndon has already powered on in the copy room by the time the bell for first period rings, and has already begun the long, slow trek down the school's single hallway,…
AUTHOR:Luke Darby
PUBLISHED: May 14, 2013
LENGTH: 17 minutes (4258 words)

How can we live with it?

The Carbon Crunch: How We’re Getting Climate Change Wrong – and How to Fix It by Dieter Helm Yale, 273 pp, £20.00, September 2012, ISBN 978 0 300 18659 8 Earthmasters: The Dawn of the Age of Climate…
LENGTH: 25 minutes (6325 words)

Slaves to the algorithm

In central London this spring, eight of the world’s greatest minds performed on a dimly lit stage in a wood-panelled theatre. An audience of hundreds watched in hushed reverence. This was the…
SOURCE:Aeon
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3781 words)

Laptop U

Gregory Nagy, a professor of classical Greek literature at Harvard, is a gentle academic of the sort who, asked about the future, will begin speaking of Homer and the battles of the distant past. At…
PUBLISHED: May 20, 2013
LENGTH: 35 minutes (8762 words)

Why is Science Behind a Paywall?

Scientists’ work follows a consistent pattern. They apply for grants, perform their research, and publish the results in a journal. The process is so routine it almost seems inevitable. But…
LENGTH: 13 minutes (3266 words)

Miami Cold Case Murder Solved With Recovered Memories

Hissing and spitting like an animal, high tide surged across the sands of Virginia Key. Dark waves broke over the jagged shore and scattered flotsam on the stones like tea leaves at the bottom of a…
PUBLISHED: May 6, 2013
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5519 words)

Who Would Kill a Monk Seal?

The Hawaiian monk seal has wiry whiskers and the deep, round eyes of an apologetic child. The animals will eat a variety of fish and shellfish, or turn over rocks for eel and octopus, then haul out…
PUBLISHED: May 8, 2013
LENGTH: 2 minutes (698 words)

Love and Madness in the Jungle

The Benders in 2002 Photo: Courtesy of the Patton Family John and Ann Bender's haunting Costa Rica fortress.
AUTHOR:Ned Zeman
LENGTH: 1 minutes (476 words)

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