The New York Times Ideas Blog today highlights an Economist article about divorce, globalization style. “There’s a global meltdown…
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Feb 6, 2009
4:40pm
Chuck Close on Photographing Brad Pitt
The contemporary artist praises the passion of Brangelina.
Feb 6, 2009
3:39pm
Chuck Close on Race
The contemporary artist talks about where he was when Martin Luther King, Jr. died and meeting Malcolm X.
Feb 6, 2009
3:39pm
Chuck Close on American Values
The contemporary artist on what it means to be an American.
Feb 6, 2009
3:39pm
Your Smartphone is Now Way Smarter Than You
A team of hyper-geniuses at MIT’s Media Lab has designed a cellphone type device that gathers data on the environment around you, searches for information using the Internet, aggregates the results,…
Feb 6, 2009
12:39pm
Our Complex Relationship With Binational Divorce
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Feb 6, 2009
10:39am
There is a Green Comet Gunning For Planet Earth
According to NASA, there is a green comet named Lulin approaching Earth. One astronomer calls it “a green beauty that could become visible to the naked eye any day now.”
Feb 6, 2009
10:39am
Reflections on Athletes and Their Scandals
Lance Armstrong and doping. Marion Jones and steroids. Tanya Harding and a lead pipe. Scandal seems to inevitably follow on the heels of—or, in some cases, preclude—gold medals. So it comes as no…
Feb 6, 2009
10:39am
Cory Booker's "Moral Imagination" Speech
Political engagement and social justice were the themes of a speech Newark Mayor Cory Booker delivered at Duke yesterday.
Feb 6, 2009
9:39am
Nat Hentoff is Still a Fierce Libertarian
Libertarian music critic Nat Hentoff, one of the foremost authorities on the First Amendment, has joined the Cato Institute as a senior fellow.
Feb 5, 2009
4:38pm
Oliver Sacks Hallucinates, The World Learns
The British neurologist and author Oliver Sacks recently chronicled the experience of losing his sight from ocular melanoma in a series of journals and an interview with Wired magazine.
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