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Fear and loathing in Athens: the rise of Golden Dawn and the far right

The flag of Golden Dawn: ‘We want all illegal foreigners out of our country, we want the usurers of the troika and the IMF out for ever.’ Photograph: Reuters You can hear it from blocks away: the…
PUBLISHED: Oct. 26, 2012
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3510 words)

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Colm Tóibín on Joyce's Dublin: city of dreamers and chancers

Photograph: Bert Hardy/Hulton Archive/Getty Images One hundred and eight years ago today James Joyce and Nora Barnacle went out walking together for the first time. "Bloomsday", the day on which the…
PUBLISHED: June 15, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3769 words)

Is Sugar Toxic?

On May 26, 2009, Robert Lustig gave a lecture called “Sugar: The Bitter Truth,” which was posted on YouTube the following July. Since then, it has been viewed well over 800,000 times, gaining new viewers at a rate of about 50,000 per month, fairly remarkable numbers for a 90-minute discussion of the nuances of fructose biochemistry and human physiology.
PUBLISHED: April 17, 2011
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