Cash and Cars: Formula 1 Bahrain
Rising in front of us, surrounded by nothing but miles of empty sand, is the Bahrain Formula 1 racetrack.
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13 Scientific truths that do not make any sense at all. Frustrated by the state of the stock market? Perhaps trained rats could do a better job. Biology Today, a…
Scott Carrier
After hitchhiking from Salt Lake City to NPR’s national office, Scott Carrier became a unique radio producer, interviewing schizophrenics and amnesiacs. Here is a This American Life episode dedicated to…
Splinter Generation Event in Echo Park
If you’re in Echo Park, Los Angeles, this Saturday, May 9th at 7pm, and you want to see the kind of art and music today’s young’uns are making, check out…
Morning Coffee
The best science magazine in the world, on the importance of research, alarmacy toward new technology, and the effect of social networking sites on the plasticity of our brains. Speaking…
Morning Coffee
sometimes, when it rains, we have our doubts… Start your day off right, with gratutious black and white pictures of bridges. In 1944 Japan launched an attack on the US…
An Oral History of Myself #1: Roger
In 2005 I began interviewing people I grew up with. Because I left home at thirteen and spent four years in group homes, my social network was significantly wider than…
Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Carole Ann Duffy, Britain’s new Poet Laureate, and both the first woman and the first openly gay person to hold the position. Mayday Magazine hosts a roundtable on…
Obey the DeeJay
I hadn’t thought about it this way before, perhaps because I’m rarely in a dance club anymore, and when I was in them, I was generally too blitzed to pay…
Telling Our Stories
One of the few compensations of growing up as a member of a restrictive, some might even say cultish, religion, is that if you manage to get free of it…