Live Your Best Life Ever!

Wish Away Cancer! Get A Lunchtime Face-Lift! Eradicate Autism! Turn Back The Clock! Thin Your Thighs! Cure Menopause! Harness Positive Energy! Erase Wrinkles! Banish Obesity! Live Your Best Life Ever!

Source: Newsweek
Published: May 30, 2009
Length: 25 minutes (6,260 words)

The Puffington Host

The many versions of Arianna Huffington, and their consequences.

Published: Jun 17, 2009
Length: 24 minutes (6,132 words)

A Broken Trust: Lessons from the Vaccine–Autism Wars

Researchers long ago rejected the theory that vaccines cause autism, yet many parents don’t believe them. Can scientists bridge the gap between evidence and doubt?

Author: Liza Gross
Source: PLoS
Published: May 26, 2009
Length: 19 minutes (4,843 words)

The Hidden Censors of the Internet

Journey with us to a state where an unaccountable panel of censors vets 95 per cent of citizens’ domestic internet connections. The content coming into each home is checked against a mysterious blacklist by a group overseen by nobody, which keeps secret the list of censored URLs not just from citizens, but from internet service providers themselves. And until recently, few in that country even knew the body existed. Are we in China? Iran? Saudi Arabia? No – the United Kingdom, in 2009.

Author: CJ Davies
Source: Wired
Published: May 20, 2009
Length: 12 minutes (3,012 words)

You Wreck Her

Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,660 words)

Drew Gilpin Faust and the Incredible Shrinking Harvard

The World’s Richest University finds itself forced to reconsider what it can afford to be. (Losing $11 billion will do that.) But if its president has a master plan for leading the school out of its financial crisis—other than letting Larry Summers take the blame—she’s keeping it to herself.

Source: Boston Magazine
Published: Jun 28, 2009
Length: 18 minutes (4,681 words)

Blacks in Space

If sci-fi is the future, why is it so white?

Published: May 29, 2009
Length: 7 minutes (1,867 words)

The “Bitch” Evolved: Why Girls Are So Cruel to Each Other

Researchers study the natural foundations of female social aggression

Published: May 27, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,465 words)

The Mormons Are Coming!

Supporters of Same-Sex Marriage Trumpet the Church’s Work Against It

Author: Karl Vick
Source: Washington Post
Published: May 29, 2009
Length: 5 minutes (1,281 words)

The Mellowing of William Jefferson Clinton

Bill Clinton loves to shop. On a March day in an elegant crafts store in Lima, the Peruvian capital, he hunted for presents for his wife and the women on his staff back home. He had given a speech at a university earlier and just came from a ceremony kicking off a program to help impoverished Peruvians. Now he was eyeing a necklace with a green stone amulet.

Published: May 26, 2009
Length: 32 minutes (8,114 words)