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Drone Home

Gregg Segal for TIME A few months ago I borrowed a drone from a company called Parrot. Officially the drone is called an AR.Drone 2.0, but for simplicity's sake, we're just going to call it the…
PUBLISHED: Feb. 11, 2013
LENGTH: 3 minutes (878 words)

Solitary in Iran Nearly Broke Me. Then I Went Inside America's Prisons.

Photograph by James West.IT'S BEEN SEVEN MONTHS since I've been inside a prison cell. Now I'm back, sort of. The experience is eerily like my dreams, where I am a prisoner in another man's cell. Like…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2271 words)

The drugs don't work: a modern medical scandal

Drugs are tested by their manufacturers, in poorly designed trials, on hopelessly small numbers of weird, unrepresentative patients, and analysed using techniques that exaggerate the benefits.…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 21, 2012
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4207 words)

The Disappeared

The author, photographed in London in 1994, five years after Ayatollah Khomeini’s death sentence forced him into hiding. Photograph by Richard Avedon.
PUBLISHED: Sept. 17, 2012
LENGTH: 3 minutes (985 words)

Angels and America: The Inherent Immorality of Capital Punishment

(I disagree that shame ought to be something society does, but that’s not the issue here.) The inherently immoral part then is the inability to redress mistakes that could come to light, given our…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (458 words)

Pandaemonium

I gave a talk called ‘Beyond the sacred’, on the changing character of ideas of the sacred and of blasphemy, at a conference on blasphemy organised this weekend by the Centre for Inquiry…
PUBLISHED: Jan. 29, 2012
LENGTH: 15 minutes (3935 words)

The Top 10 MoJo Long Reads From 2011

Conventional wisdom is that people don't read long magazine stories online, but Mother Jones readers regularly prove otherwise. Every time we run a compelling, multipage article on our website, we…
LENGTH: 1 minutes (394 words)

The dangers of using one lab animal to study every disease.

LENGTH: 35 minutes (8894 words)

Caspar Melville interviews Rev Richard Coles

Former popstar, BBC presenter and parish priest Reverend Richard Coles talks to Caspar Melville about faith, doubt and dachsundsBritain may have fallen out of love with Anglicanism but it retains a…
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2906 words)
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