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06.01.01 | REPORT | The Little Slit in the Americas
In the third installment of This Is Planet Earth, Mitchell Stephens rides a container ship through the Panama Canal and finds out how this ninety year-old artificial passageway still shapes the world order. (1 Comment)
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05.30.01 | |
| DAILY | Cocaine in the Membrane
Christine Kenneally on the unexpected neurological changes caused by coke (8 Comments)
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05.29.01 | DIALOG | The Color of Money
Capitalism, environmentalism, and the connection between being green and being profitable (12 Comments)
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05.25.01 | |
| DAILY | Apocalypse -- Now!
Joshua Micah Marshall on George W. Bush's alarmism (4 Comments)
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05.24.01 | |
| DAILY | A Case of Stolen Identity
Clay Shirky on cheap and easy Web heists (6 Comments)
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05.22.01 | DIALOG | David Gelernter's New Desktop
A dialog with the computer scientist, author and interface rebel (64 Comments)
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05.21.01 | |
| DAILY | On the Block
Benjamin Anastas on the auction of Jack Kerouac's notorious scroll (1 Comment)
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05.18.01 | |
| DAILY | Love is Strange
Jefferson Chase on why the Love Parade, Berlin's annual techno bacchanal, is being championed by the Christian Democrats (1 Comment)
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05.17.01 | ESSAY | Give It Away Now!
Microsoft thinks the open source movement shares a fatal flaw with the businesss models of the bubble economy. But do the dot.bombs have more in common with Windows than with Linux? Steven Johnson investigates. (19 Comments)
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| DAILY | Thank You For the Music
Jefferson Chase on this year's serving of Continental kitsch at the Eurovision Song Contest (19 Comments)
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05.15.01 | REPORT | "Oscar Added Years to My Life!"
New research shows that Academy Award winners live longer than their peers. Christine Kenneally finds out why. (3 Comments)
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05.14.01 | DIALOG |
Our Cheating Hearts
A Dialog about monogamy and how evolutionary biology can help us understand infidelity. (20 Comments)
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05.11.01 | |
| DAILY | The Origins of Madness
Christiane Culhane on the role of essential fatty acids in schizophrenia and human evolution (3 Comments)
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05.09.01 | |
| DAILY | Anatomy of Your Self
Christine Kenneally on scientists' discovery of the part of the brain that controls much of our personality (4 Comments)
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05.08.01 | INTERVIEW | The Taste Test
Steven Johnson talks to OpenCola's Cory Doctorow about his bid to reinvent the intelligent agent. (19 Comments)
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05.07.01 | |
| DAILY | The Toxic Mountain
Michael Amon on Yucca Mountain, the site singled out for nuclear waste disposal
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05.04.01 | |
| DAILY | Once Upon a Time in Hong Kong
Mark Van de Walle on the triumphant return of Tsui Hark (1 Comment)
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05.02.01 | ESSAY | The DJ's New Lexicon
Skratch, a newly legit musical genre, is getting its own notational system. Franklin Bruno looks at two bids to put flares, orbits, and crabs down on paper. (3 Comments)
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04.30.01 | DIALOG | Debunking the Digital Divide
The past, present, and future of race and technology (56 Comments)
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04.27.01 | REPORT | Building a New Beirut
Lebanon's capital has staked its future on one real estate company that promises to revitalize its ruined downtown. Robyn Creswell reports from Beirut. (0 Comments)
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- Hot Dogs And Olive Loaf And Spam, Oh My! -- Processed Meat Causes Colon Cancer
"My paranoia about what I can eat, drink, and smoke, and where I can walk, talk, and with whom -- or else die now -- starts at the breakfast table, before I've even had a decent shot of caffeine and nicotine."
- ACLU Calls Clarence Thomas "Intellectual Fraud," Leaves Him Off First-Amendment Debate Guest List
"One board member called him 'an intellectual fraud,' another called him 'an asshole,' and others said his 'intellectual capacity is not there.'"
- Will Republican Split On Environment Slow The Bush-Cheney Oil Production Juggernaut?
"Bush still has enough votes to push his agenda through most of the time, but how long can that last before he has to moderate his positions?"
- The Terrible Price of Energy -- Exxon Accused Of Violating Human Rights
"This is the first time we actually have evidence that the oil company has supported the instrumentality for the human rights violations."
- Fight The Power, Pass The Herbal Tea -- Utah's Decaf Anarchists
They join in labor protests and meet in coffee shops -- but don't drink coffee.
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Suck brings back the spirit of history's great vacationers
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