After three decades, author Linda Spaldin tries to help exonerate a woman on whose trial she had been a juror.
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Back in the USSR: A Reading List
Six stories that examine the complicated heritage of the fall of the Soviet Union.
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‘It Seemed a Sheet of Sun’: Reporting from Hiroshima, a Year After the Bomb
Seventy years ago, on August 6, 1945, the United States Air Force dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
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‘Who Cares about Your Jetpack?’ On the Lack of Women Futurists
When we think about futurism, more often than not it’s robots and hoverboards that spring into our minds.
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Why Our Ignorance Makes Us Overestimate How Much We Know
Impostor syndrome has been covered extensively in recent years. Its inverse, known as the Dunning-Kruger effect, is at least as pervasive: our innate tendency to confidently claim expertise in topics we know very little about, sometimes to embarrassing (if not tragic) results. Writing for Pacific Standard, David Dunning, who led the first studies of this […]
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‘The World Is Full of Obvious Things’: A Sherlock Holmes Reading List
Sherlock Holmes feels uncannily contemporary these days — from his dizzying array of post-hipsterish quirks (Cocaine user! Virtuosic violin player! Exotic tobacco aficionado!) to a social aloofness that feels straight out of a Millennial INTP‘s playbook. (His knack for Twitter-ready aphorisms doesn’t hurt, either.) I’ve been rereading Conan Doyle’s stories for almost 20 years, and the guy has never felt more fresh.
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The Art of Authenticity: A Conversation with PostSecret’s Frank Warren
“I feel like PostSecret is almost like an anti-Facebook. It’s the true story that you would normally never share in a public arena.”
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Really Old Stuff: A Reading List About Our Prehistoric Past
Four stories that take us millennia back into the past.
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The Rotten and the Sublime: A Reading List on Fermentation
Somewhere in the grey zone between science and magic, the controlled addition of bacteria to food transforms it — mostly to our delight. Here are five pieces exploring these transitions (and their products).
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The Walls of Berlin: A Reading List
Four stories about the Berlin Wall, from its creation to the memories it has helped shape, to mark the 25th anniversary of its fall.