At Cambridge over the summer, many students were taking pills to help their concentration. Ed Cumming was among them ...From INTELLIGENT LIFE Magazine, Autumn 2009One evening this summer, in our final term at Cambridge, my roommate Katie threw a party. Our set was in a 17th-century attic, and its sloping ceilings framed a gorgeous view: a panorama taking in […]
Courtesy of Ann Sofie Back A still from the YouTube "hostage" video by the designer Ann Sofie Back. Throughout her career, the Swedish designer Ann Sofie Back has embraced bad taste. Her ripped, stitched, tattered and generally askew aesthetic has been inspired by everything from Wildensteinesque plastic surgery to Lindsay Lohan's lack of unde […]
Turner is hailed as a proto-modernist, a 'painterly' painter concerned more with surface and light than subject matter. But, as a new show reveals, his originality grew out of a fashionable imitation of the Grand StyleTurner is a complicated figure in relation to the big picture of truly great art through the ages. But it's exactly this contex […]
Wired has a long piece by Amy Wallace about the anti-science anti-vaccine crowd. Ah, risk. It is the idea that fuels the anti-vaccine movement -- that parents should be allowed to opt out, because it is their right to evaluate risk for their own children. It is also the idea that underlies the CDC's vaccination schedule -- that the risk to public health […]
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Having previously put together a post with links to stories from the 2009 edition of Best of American Crime Reporting, I decided to go to earlier editions to gather together what is available on the web. Starting in 2007 with The Tainted Kidney: Charles Graeber, New York. A serial killer who chooses to donate his kidney has his motives questioned. Continuing […]
February 18, 2009 at 12:20 pm
And which two would those be? Or is there something you’re not telling me about our solvency…?