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Technology - Alexis Madrigal - The Case for Facebook - The Atlantic
Powerful take. But doesn’t consider revenue. RT : The Case for Facebook. A skeptic’s guide.
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yesterday by marks
Jack White: 'I don't like to take the easy way out, on anything I do' | Music | The Guardian
Jack White: 'I don't like to take the easy way out, on anything I do'
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6 weeks ago by marks
San Francisco Operation Midnight Climax: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD - SF Weekly
Operation Midnight: How the CIA Dosed S.F. Citizens with LSD
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10 weeks ago by marks
Shattered Glass | The
Helt emminent om journalistikkens wonderboy i 90erne: Stephen Glass. Problem: Han skrev fri fantasi (1998)
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10 weeks ago by marks
Apocalypse How - The Morning News
I asked natural disaster experts to share their worst-case scenarios. They explained how scared we should be
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february 2012 by marks
Gary Oldman Interview by Chris Heath: Movies + TV: GQ
The Gary Oldman Story That Almost Wasn't (Chris Heath, ):
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february 2012 by marks
The Final Comeback of Axl Rose: Celebrities: GQ
Love this. RT : John Jeremiah Sullivan's majestic 2006 profile of Axl
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february 2012 by marks
Log In - The New York Times
Wow. How a kidney transplant chain linked 60 lives – fascinating and moving NYT piece by
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february 2012 by marks
The Montauk Grifter: How One Con Man Used OkCupid for Fun, Fraud, and Profit
"The Montauk Grifter: How One Con Man Used OkCupid for Fun, Fraud, and Profit" (John Cook, ):
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february 2012 by marks
Untitled (http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2012-02/boy-who-played-fusion?page=all)
The Boy Who Played With Fusion – wonderful profile of 16-year-old science prodigy Taylor Wilson
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february 2012 by marks
How to Say I Love You - The Morning News
"How to Say I Love You." , v.
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february 2012 by marks
The Way It Was | Mother Jones
"The deaths stopped overnight in 1973." Life "before the age of abortion"
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january 2012 by marks
Poemas del río Wang: The language of stamps
The most interesting thing I read in weeks – the secret language of stamps
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january 2012 by marks
Is there a cure for alcohol hangovers? : The New Yorker
"Is there any hope for the hung over?" Preparatory reading from in 2008 to ready you for NYE:
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december 2011 by marks
The Book of Jobs | Politics | Vanity Fair
"The Book of Jobs" (Joseph E. Stiglitz, ):
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december 2011 by marks
Steve Jobs’s Real Genius : The New Yorker
Malcolm Gladwell on Steve Jobs. "The Tweaker"
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november 2011 by marks
Muammar Qaddafi’s Death and Legacy : The New Yorker
"The last days of Muammar Qaddafi" (Jon Lee Anderson, ):
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october 2011 by marks
A mind dismembered: In search of the magical penis thieves—By Frank Bures (Harper's Magazine)
"In search of the magical penis thieves" (Frank Bures, ):
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october 2011 by marks
How private firms have cashed in on the climate of fear since 9/11 | World news | The Guardian
How private firms have cashed in on the climate of fear since 9/11
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september 2011 by marks
A Brief History of the Corporation: 1600 to 2100
On this ominous Friday, you should read A Brief History of the Corporation 1600-2100 via
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august 2011 by marks
Planning & Executing the Mission to Get Bin Laden : The New Yorker
Getting Bin Laden "What happened that night in Abbottabad" (new ):
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august 2011 by marks
The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox | Rolling Stone Culture
"The Neverending Nightmare of Amanda Knox" (Nathaniel Rich, ):
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june 2011 by marks
John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway's suicide - Readability
Being Ernest – John Walsh unravels the mystery behind Hemingway's suicide
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june 2011 by marks
Chuck Klosterman: How an obscure junior college basketball game in North Dakota made history - Grantland
"How an obscure junior college basketball game in North Dakota made history" (Chuck Klosterman, Grantland, )
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june 2011 by marks
Print Page
"The Man Who Had HIV and Now Does Not" (Tina Rosenberg, , ):
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may 2011 by marks
Liquid Gold: The Booming Market for Human Breast Milk | Magazine
"Liquid Gold: The Booming Market for Human Breast Milk" (Judy Dutton, ):
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may 2011 by marks
Washingtonian Magazine - Dining and Restaurants, Shopping, Politics, Entertainment, Nightlife, Real Estate, News and Events in Washington, DC, Maryland and Virginia
An FBI agent recalls his interrogation of Saddam Hussein. By ,
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may 2011 by marks
How the Arab Spring remade Obama’s foreign policy : The New Yorker
"How the Arab Spring remade Obama’s foreign policy" (Ryan Lizza, ):
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april 2011 by marks
Trouble @Twitter - Fortune Tech
"Trouble " (Jessi Hempel, ):
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april 2011 by marks
The Military's Secret Shame - Print - Newsweek
"The Military's Secret Shame." , v.
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april 2011 by marks
Untitled (http://www.chomsky.info/interviews/20110204.htm)
"This is the Most Remarkable Regional Uprising that I Can Remember" Noam Chomsky interviewed by Amy Goodman:
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march 2011 by marks
Keeping up e-ppearances: How to bury your digital dirt - tech - 23 February 2011 - New Scientist
Worried about your online reputation? Here's how our own Sally Adee buried her digital dirt
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february 2011 by marks
The Quietus | Features | A Quietus Interview | An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. Thompson
Recommended: "An Unpublished Interview With Hunter S. Thompson" (Ian Johnston, ):
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february 2011 by marks
APPLE V GOOGLE | More Intelligent Life
Apple vs. Google – an interesting in-depth look at the big tech rivalry of our time
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december 2010 by marks
The Top Five Long Reads of 2010 « Books I Read
For your Instapaper catch-up delight: curates the best 5 of the year
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december 2010 by marks
2010's Best Long Reads: Science, Medicine & Technology | Brain Pickings
The best of 2010 in science, medicine & technology – final part in guest series
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december 2010 by marks
A Real Science of Mind - NYTimes.com
"A Real Science of Mind" (Tyler Burge, ):
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december 2010 by marks
The Best Long Reads of 2010: Art, Design, Film & Music | Brain Pickings
Proud to present 2010's best in Art, Design, Music & Film, guest-curated by What were yours?
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december 2010 by marks
IEEE Spectrum: Ray Kurzweil's Slippery Futurism
Futurist Ray Kurzweil's prediction record, dissected (One for you, )
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december 2010 by marks
A Matter of Optics - Lapham’s Quarterly
ESSAY: Why do we desire to see the city from high above it all? Warren Breckman's ode to the aerial view.
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november 2010 by marks
(500) http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/10/to_nsfw_or_not_to_nsfw.html
"To NSFW or not to NSFW?" by :
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november 2010 by marks
Feature Column from the AMS
"How Google Finds Your Needle in the Web's Haystack":
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october 2010 by marks
The New York Times > Log In
"How Behavioral Science is Remaking Politics" in :
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october 2010 by marks
Stories vs. Statistics - NYTimes.com
Stories vs. Statistics – great read on the difference between storytelling and data (via )
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october 2010 by marks
Jazz & Innovation: How the Jazz Culture Fosters Creativity
Jazz & Innovation: How the Jazz Culture Fosters Creativity – fantastic, lateral 2004 piece (via )
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september 2010 by marks
Untitled (http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/hist_texts/wilde_soul.html)
Oscar Wilde on the soul of a man under Socialism
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september 2010 by marks
The Atlantic :: Magazine :: The End of Men
From : The End of Men. By
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june 2010 by marks
Why didn't video phones take off?
David Foster Wallace: Why didn't video phones take off? (via mefi, , )
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june 2010 by marks
Your Brain on Computers - Attached to Technology and Paying a Price - NYTimes.com
From : Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price. By Matt Richtel
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june 2010 by marks
Behind Foursquare and Gowalla: The great check-in battle
RT : Behind Foursquare and Gowalla: The great check-in battle ( with on cover)
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june 2010 by marks
Magazine Preview - How a Soccer Star is Made - NYTimes.com
From Mag: How a Soccer Star Is Made. By Michael Sokolove
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june 2010 by marks
The Pleasures of Imagination - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education
RT : . on the pleasures of imagination.
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june 2010 by marks
WikiLeaks and Julian Paul Assange : The New Yorker
From : No Secrets. On WikiLeaks, Julian Paul Assange. By Raffi Khatchadourian
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may 2010 by marks
M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop - NYTimes.com
RT : M.I.A.’s Agitprop Pop
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may 2010 by marks
The Man Who Could Unsnarl Manhattan Traffic | Magazine
RT : From : on Charles and his anti-traffic crusade:
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may 2010 by marks
All The Dirt That's Fit To Print: Big Issues: GQ
From : All The Dirt That's Fit To Print. By Alex
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may 2010 by marks
Come party with Lady Gaga - Times Online
RT : The Times' Caitlin Moran's epic account of her night out with Lady Gaga
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may 2010 by marks
Paul Morley On Ian Curtis - 'The Myth Gets Stronger' - In The NME Office - NME.COM - The world's fastest music news service, music videos, interviews, photos and free stuff to win
RT : 'The myth gets stronger' - from NME archive, Paul Morley's Ian Curtis obit, June 1980
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may 2010 by marks
When Washington Took On Wall Street | Business | Vanity Fair
From : When Washington Took On Wall Street. By Alan Brinkley
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may 2010 by marks
AN NFL SUPERSTAR'S REPULSIVE BEHAVIOR, THE ULTIMATE - 05.10.10 - SI Vault
Sports Illustrated: The Hangover -- Roethlisberger. By Jack McCallum
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may 2010 by marks
Operation Mincemeat and spycraft in World War Two : The New Yorker
RT : Malcolm Gladwell on the pitfalls of espionage:
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may 2010 by marks
STEPHEN HAWKING: How to build a time machine | Mail Online
Stephen Hawking, : How to build a time machine.
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may 2010 by marks
Subways are for sleeping—By Edmund G. Love (Harper's Magazine)
Edmund G. Love, (1956): Subways Are for Sleeping
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april 2010 by marks
Gareth Thomas ... The Only Openly Gay Male Athlete - 05.03.10 - SI Vault
Sports Illustrated: Gareth Thomas ... The Only Openly Gay Male Athlete. By Gary Smith
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april 2010 by marks
Books of The Times - Lonely Texas Girl - Laura Bush’s ‘Spoken From the Heart’ - NYTimes.com
Michiko Kakutani, : Laura Bush, a Lonely Texas Girl Far From Home
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april 2010 by marks

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