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The Ballad of Captain Dwight
An interview with the man who was picked by Kennedy to be the first black man in space --and why he was forced to quit, on The Memory Palace podcast with Nate DiMeo. [Audio]
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The Bourne Identity
A hundred years ago, Randolph Bourne was a hot property—an intellectual wunderkind who was taking the American intellectual scene by storm. Bourne was the complete package: brilliant, charismatic, filled with social energy, and exquisitely attuned to the moment... By Andrew J. Bacevich.
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Was Marcel Duchamp’s ‘Fountain’ actually created by a long-forgotten pioneering feminist?
In March 1917, the Philadelphia-based modernist painter George Biddle hired a 42-year-old German woman as a model. She visited him in his studio, and Biddle told her that he wished to see her naked. The model threw open her scarlet raincoat... By John Higgs.
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Terence McKenna’s Disillusioned Perspective on Mass-Consumerist Culture
“We have to create culture, don’t watch TV, don’t read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your own roadshow.” — Terence McKenna. By Jordan Bates.
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John McAfee: The Prophet of Paranoia
Can John McAfee, a gun-toting, vodka-swilling serial liar, save us from the hackers who want to spy on us and steal our identities? By Stephen Rodrick.
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The astronomer and the witch – how Kepler saved his mother from the stake
When Kepler was at the very height of his scientific career, his mother was accused of witchcraft. By Ulinka Rublack.
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Alabama version of ‘Skull and Bones’ publicly exposed
The fabled Skull and Bones society is the stuff of lore at Yale University. Harvard University has Final Clubs, known as a grooming place for the rich and powerful. In Tuscaloosa, a group called "The Machine" may not rise to Ivy League heights of prestige or mystique. But it's a powerful force at the University of Alabama... By Jay Reeves.
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The Art of Witness
How Primo Levi survived. By James Wood.
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What happens when America’s Soviet-style food banks embrace free-market economics?
Spoiler: They thrive. By Alex Teytelboym.
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In Memory of Sheldon Wolin (1922–2015)
“Listening to Wolin put one in the presence of the past, a past sheltering the future, a past sheltered in the present, a past yet to be fulfilled.” By Anne Norton.
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Kids Playgrounds. What were they thinking?
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Meet one of the world’s most groundbreaking scientists. He’s 34
Feng Zhang, 34, of the Broad Institute and MIT is considered a double threat to win a Nobel prize for his work on CRISPR gene editing and brain science. By Sharon Begley.
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Lebanon man accused of beating woman who refused to share her pain meds: Police
Richard Mase, 60, also threatened to shoot any officer that entered the home to arrest him, police said.
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Mr. and Mrs. B
When Alexander Chee was a struggling young writer, working as a cater-waiter for William F. and Pat Buckley.
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Winds and Cook Inlet tides make a mess of Point Woronzof art installation
High winds and a 31-foot tide Tuesday demolished most of the "100Stone" installation set in place at Point Woronzof in Anchorage on Saturday.
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These Are The Victims Of The San Bernardino Shooting
On Thursday afternoon, officials began identifying the 14 people killed.
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The new software to stop your kids finding out Santa doesn’t exist
WANT TO keep your childs’ belief in Santa alive this Christmas? Well, new research says the answer starts and ends with the internet.
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First EPA chief accuses Republicans of ignoring science for political gain
William Ruckelshaus, who this week will receive the presidential medal of freedom, says candidates are harming US’s reputation ahead of Paris climate talks. By Oliver Milman. (Nov. 23)
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Orcas seen in unique group ambush-and-kill attack on dolphins
A pod of killer whales known for invading beaches to catch baby sea lions has now been spotted using sophisticated ambush tactics to catch dolphins. By Bob Holmes.
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Peter Frankopan
Peter Frankopan is research fellow at Worcester College, Oxford and director of the Oxford Centre for Byzantine Research. His latest book, The Silk Roads, has been widely acclaimed as a corrective to standard accounts of world history. By Masoud Golsorkhi.
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