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.

• Carbs against Cardio: More Evidence that Refined Carbohydrates, not Fats, Threaten the Heart: Scientific American

  Scientific American · 2010-05-10

• Magazine Preview - The Data-Driven Life - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-04-29

• BBC News | EUROPE | Nokia boss gets record speeding fine

  BBC · 2010-04-28

• No gain from brain training : Nature News

  Nature · 2010-04-20

• Now charlatans will know to beware the geeks | Nick Cohen | Comment is free | The Observer

  The Guardian · 2010-04-18

• The words David Foster Wallace circled in his dictionary. -

  Slate · 2010-04-15

• West Coast Coffee Roasters Are Lengthening Their Reach - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-04-10

• Ars Technica reviews the iPad

  Ars Technica · 2010-04-07

• Define Your Personal Leadership Brand in Five Steps - The Conversation

  Harvard Business Review · 2010-04-06

• The Washington Monthly

  Washington Monthly · 2010-04-04

• Book Review - The History of White People - By Nell Irvin Painter - Review - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-03-27

• Lapham’s Quarterly

  Lapham's Quarterly · 2010-03-23

• Can hand sanitizers like Purell really stop people from getting the flu? - By Darshak Sanghavi

  Slate · 2010-03-17

• David Shenk - Authors

  The Atlantic · 2010-03-11

• Uranium Is So Last Century — Enter Thorium, the New Green Nuke | Magazine

  Wired · 2010-03-01

• How Paul Krugman found politics

  The New Yorker · 2010-03-01

• Fill in the Blanks: Using Math to Turn Lo-Res Datasets Into Hi-Res Samples | Magazine

  Wired · 2010-02-23

• How to Raise Racist Kids | GeekDad | Wired.com

  Wired · 2010-02-16

• Be lucky - it's an easy skill to learn

  The Telegraph · 2010-02-16

• Bowling With Our Own by John Leo

  City Journal · 2010-02-15

• How Christian Were the Founders? - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-02-14

• Wired 8.04: Why the future doesn't need us.

  Wired · 2010-02-10

• Arts: Photographer Loves Math, Graphs Her Images | Magazine

  Wired · 2010-02-04

• Right-Wing Flame War! - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-01-25

• James Patterson Inc. - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-01-25

• Wired 7.04: The Open Secret

  Wired · 2010-01-20

• Why Poor Countries Are Poor

  Reason · 2010-01-20

• Writing Good English: A talk by William Zinsser to foreign students at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism

  The American Scholar · 2010-01-15

• A Peek Into Netflix Queues - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2010-01-10

• Seeking Coffee's Benefits to Health - WSJ.com

  The Wall Street Journal · 2009-12-30

• Seeking Alpha — and Users: 6 New Financial Web Sites - WSJ.com

  The Wall Street Journal · 2009-12-29

• Reading People’s Faces

  Reason · 2009-12-20

• Design - Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2009-11-16

• Massively collaborative mathematics : Article

  Nature · 2009-10-14

• That Which Does Not Kill Me Makes Me Stranger

  The New York Times · 2009-09-24

• Call It Ludacris - The Kinship Between Talk Radio and Rap - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2009-09-21

• The Happiest Occupations - WSJ.com

  The Wall Street Journal · 2009-09-17

• America, savvy investor | Free exchange | Economist.com

  The Economist · 2009-08-26

• Home : Nature podcast

  Nature · 2009-08-11

• BBC - Radio 4 In Our Time - Home Page

  BBC · 2009-08-11

• Peru: A history lost in the ruins

  The Telegraph · 2009-08-06

• Never Again the Same -- Printout -- TIME

  Time · 2009-07-16

• Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

  Fast Company · 2009-07-14

• How to Hire—and Get Hired—in a Recession by Jason Calacanis

  Bloomberg · 2009-05-14

• How-to: Deploying PyQt applications on Windows and Mac OS X

  Ars Technica · 2009-03-19

• Darwinism Must Die So That Evolution May Live - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2009-02-10

• Mind - Some Protect the Ego by Working on Their Excuses Early - NYTimes.com

  The New York Times · 2009-01-06

  watch out for this.

• Broken Windows

  The Atlantic · 2008-12-03

  The original article on the Broken windows theory. circa 1982

• Browse the Artifacts of Geek History in Jay Walker's Library

  Wired · 2008-10-10

• Roger Federer as Religious Experience

  The New York Times · 2008-09-16

  article by DAVID FOSTER WALLACE on NY Times