Long reads
Essays, features and reporting from magazines and papers: The Atlantic, The New Yorker, Aeon, Quanta, the Economist and more.
Top publicationsThe New York Times 74BBC 33The Guardian 27Wired 27The Wall Street Journal 26Bloomberg 25The Atlantic 24The New Yorker 21The Washington Post 16The Economist 14Atlas Obscura 12Nature 10
514 articles.
BBC Learning English | Grammar and Vocabulary
Can a night owl become a morning person? A Slate experiment. - By Deepa Ranganathan
My alarm went off at 7 the next day. After a panicky wake-up, I realized I wasn't tired at all—I was full of bounce and vim. The melatonin pill had worked a miracle. "Time to get up!" I sang out, pulling up the blinds.
Can You Become a Creature of New Habits?
Annals of Innovation: In the Air by Malcolm Gladwell
Each Grain of Sand a Tiny Work of Art
Seeing Around Corners
100 books every child should read - Part 1: Early years
The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
No Bar Code:Organic farming story
IEEE Spectrum: Learn Like A Human
One of the baffling aspects of the brain is that it decides what to learn on its own
Pearls Before Breakfast - washingtonpost.com
Hacking your senses (Wired 15.04: Mixed Feelings )
See with your tongue. Navigate with your skin. Fly by the seat of your pants (literally). How researchers can tap the plasticity of the brain to hack our 5 senses — and build a few new ones.
Monday view: Cheap solar power poised to undercut oil and gas by half | Monday View | Columnists | Business | Money
Iran: The Next War
THE HEIGHT GAP
Why Europeans are getting taller and taller—and Americans aren’t.
Dark cloud over good works of Gates Foundation
100 things we didn't know last year - 2006 version
Genghis Khan: Law and order
How would four of the greatest war leaders in history have handled Iraq?
BBC moves to file-sharing sites
Hundreds of episodes of BBC programmes will be made available on a file-sharing network for the first time, the corporation has announced.
You want a diamond?
rethink that after seeing this photoessay.
John Gatto, award-winning teacher, aims to overthrow the public-school establishment.
Jeff Bezos' Risky Bet
nice article on Amazon EC2 and S3
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/11/05/nosplit/nwarm05.xml
A contrarian view of the environmental changes
Battle of the New Atheism
interesting read from wired magazine
The Information Factories
The desktop is dead. Welcome to the Internet cloud, where massive facilities across the globe will store all the data you'll ever use. George Gilder on the dawning of the petabyte age.
How Many Lightbulbs Does it Take to Change the World?
The history and economics of CFL
MANIFOLD DESTINY : the story of Perelman's Proof
The Soviet method for attacking infection
use Phages instead of anti-biotics...
Wired 14.05: The RFID Hacking Underground
They can steal your smartcard, lift your passport, jack your car, even clone the chip in your arm. And you won't feel a thing. 5 tales from the RFID-hacking underground.
The Millionaire Next Door
From A to Zzzzz
New pills are reinvigorating an old debate—how much sleep do we really need?
Apple MacBook review by ArsTechnica
Does the Truth Lie Within?
article on shangri-la method of weight loss
TIME.com: How Germany Keeps Kids From Dropping Out -- Apr. 17, 2006 -- Page 1
The country's thriving vocational education system gets students to stay in school - and prepares them for a solid career
Rajkumar, Beloved Indian Film Star, Dies at 77
The rise of the 'childfree'
Birth rates in the European Union are falling fast.
50 things to eat before you die
Billions Served: Norman Borlaug interviewed by Ronald Bailey
Who has saved more human lives than anyone else in history? Who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1970? Who still teaches at Texas A&M at the age of 86? The answer is Norman Borlaug.
The Best: Accidental Discoveries
Have You Ever Tried to Sell a Diamond?
diamonds are over prices, over hyped and utterly useless. Here is why.
Wired 11.09: PowerPoint Is Evil
Generation Pad Thai
thai recipes
Legion of honour
The French Foreign Legion says that the number of British recruits to its ranks has plummeted because they are too soft to make it through basic training. Twenty-five years ago, Erwin James left a life in chaos and travelled to France to…
Web users judge sites in the blink of an eye
Potential readers can make snap decisions in just 50 milliseconds.
The Rise of Craigslist and How It's Killing Your Newspaper -
Bayes rules and the mind
interesting article on how Bayes theorem can be used to explain how the brain works... from Economist.com..
The Bombay Ballot
What the U.S. can learn from India's electronic voting machines. By Eric Weiner
The Power Of Us
Mass collaboration on the Internet is shaking up business
Steve Jobs: The Rolling Stone Interview
Interview of Steve jobs in Rolling stone Magazine
Wired News: Eat, Sleep, Work, Consume, Die