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Joshuah Bearman
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The Death of the Music Industry Foretold With Shapes
And other (the truth about Twitter) elegant (venn diagram of drugs) infographics (a time-line of media scare stories). Because information must be free — and beautiful.
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A Clean, Well Lighted Place for Thoughtful Essays
Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a thoughtful, historical essay several thousand words long on the Huffington Post. The piece is a concise history of terrorism, or rather, of the modern chapter of terrorism, beginning in the nineteenth…
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Why Wear a Ghillie Suit When You Can You Can Paint One On?
Who doesn’t like urban camouflage in all forms? Well, let’s take it up a notch!
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The Weightlifting Snowman in Pictures
Readers and listeners agree: the tale of the weightlifting snowman story is tops. Like the majestic phoenix arising from the ashes, this story was first written for the NY Times magazine (for John Hodgman, back when he edited the now-defunct True…
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A Crazy Story
In which a murder victim’s daughter tracks down the Mafia hitman-turned-Central-American-minister who killed her father. Eventually, she confronted the guy while wearing a hidden camera. But to get there, she spent twenty-seven years putting together what turned out to be…
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“To briefly summarize a vast, complex literature…”
“…prolonged and extreme stress inhibits the biological processes believed to support memory in the brain.” In other words, science also says that torture yields unreliable information.
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Some People are Always on the Right Side of History
Marek Edelman: leader of Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (and late Warsaw Uprising); stayed in Poland to become a cardiologist and save lives where he couldn’t during the war; stood with the Solidarity movement against Communisim. Died Friday at 90.
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If you were wondering whether they still ban books
The answer is yes. And thanks to the freedom of information represented by the Internets, we can now track book bannings on a handy interactive map.
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Books, Movies, Magic: The Rediscovered Genius of the Automaton
I recently read “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” a sort of hybrid graphic-young adult novel by Brian Selznik that tells a fictionalized story revolving around Georges Méliès, the frenchman who was the first filmmaker to employ cinematic tricks in narrative.
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Pictures From Pakistan
The Denver Post publishes a collection of stills by Emilio Morenatti, an Italian photographer for the AP who currently covers South Asia. We hear a lot about Pakistan these days: a taliban putsch, terrorism, civil unrest, angry lawyers, madrassas, honor…
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Une Voyage Dans Le Lune
I’m going to guess that, like me, very few people have gotten far enough in the silent classic to realize that A Trip To The Moon features a battle sequence in which the parasol-toting, top hat-wearing Parisian astronauts fight off…
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Animals That Do Exist
I like how one of these incredible animals that actually do exist is just a really huge cat. Some other animals that DO exist? More cats! But the real payoff is the weird scrolling message at the end: WE’RE ALL…