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Vikings & Ministers of Parliament Exchange Glances
Sometimes the short items are the most fun. From Today’s Times, via the genius Giles Kristian.
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Earthquakes, Times Quakes, Chimp Wars, Et Alia: David’s Irregular Reader
Recent high points from my browsing, in no particular order.• Long Exposure Night Photography of New Orleans That Captures the City’s Architecture After Dark. Gorgeous work. A couple years ago I...
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Glitter in the Net, 20 May 2014
A May day in the Vermont Republic Shiny things from the day: In Arrested development, at Mosaic, Virginia Hughes looks at a handful of girls who won’t age and an aging scientist who’s determined to...
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Getting it backwards: When market value determines art value.
Some critics like Jeff Koons’s work. Others hate it. At The Dish. [I]t is Koons’s signal achievement to have created a wholly new kind of art, one immune to all forms of judgment save that of the...
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The 80 richest people own as much as the poorest 3.5 billion
A 1916 leaflet proposes to segregate St. Louis. The measure passed. (Missouri History Museum Library and Research Center, via Coates at The Atlantic Hand it to the rich — no, wait, they already took...
View ArticleGourevitch and Langwiesche on GermanWings crash; play war and real war; Mad...
A Bewildering Crash. Philip Gourevitch at The New Yorker. Just as the brevity of the flight, and the apparent spontaneity of the captain’s decision to leave the cockpit—to stretch a leg? or take a...
View ArticleRobin Marantz Henig’s gorgeous story on a woman facing one death to dodge...
Robin Marantz Henig is at her superb best in “The Last Day of Her Life,” a NY Times Magazine feature about a remarkable woman, Sandy Bern, who decides she’ll end her life before she loses her self to...
View ArticleMy Four Months as a Private Prison Guard: A Mother Jones Investigation |...
A MoJo reporter gets a job as a prison guard at a private prison. The orientation was a bit disorienting. The human resources director comes in and scolds Reynolds for napping. He perks up when she...
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Bach Was a Bad Bad Boy
St. Thomas Church, of Leipzig, where Bach did most of his work. From a study in an inn across the square. By author. The thin documentary trail left by J.S. Bach, this rich review of a new biography...
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A Calm Eye on the Selfish Gene Storm
Over at the Genetic Literacy Project, editor Kenrick Vezina offers a particularly level-headed and constructive consideration of the debate over the fitness of the selfish-gene metaphor that my Aeon...
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