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October 2012

October 26, 2012

The Blank Page as a Petri Dish for Thought

Essayist Arthur Krystal on why writers are often smarter on the page than in conversation: [W]riters...

October 25, 2012

50 Things a Woman Should Be Able To Do

Last week I posted a list of “50 Things a Man Should Be Able To...

October 25, 2012

The Solitude of Friendship

There are so many gems of wisdom in William Deresiewicz’s lecture on “Solitude and Leadership“—delivered...

October 22, 2012

Cowboys, Puritans, and Poker

James McManus on the importance of understanding poker’s role in American culture: Humanities professors should recognize...

October 19, 2012

50 Things a Man Should Be Able To Do

Every man does not need to know how to tie a bow tie. Let’s get that clear...

October 16, 2012

Portion Distortion and the Last Supper

How much would Jesus eat? The answer—as determined by depictions of the last supper—vary by...

October 15, 2012

Why Don’t Doctors Wash Their Hands More?

After reading this, I don’t think I’ll be shaking hands with doctors anymore: Hand hygiene and...

October 12, 2012

The 50 Best/Worst Childhood Fads

They were the best of fads, they were the worst of fads—all at the same...

October 12, 2012

What Does Beauty Taste Like?

“De gustibus non disputandum est,” the Romans used to say: Concerning taste, it is not...

October 11, 2012

Human Anatomy Terms That Sound Like Things You Would Go See On A Vacation

Aortic Arch Corpus Callosum Islets of Langerhans Bowman’s Capsule Cranial Vault Semicircular Canals Medullary Pyramids...

October 10, 2012

The Dirty Bathroom Theory of Schools

In a famous article in a 1982 issue of Atlantic Monthly, James Q. Wilson and George Kelling proposed...

October 09, 2012

The Three Pigs and the Ancient Greek Philosopher

Disney’s Three Little Pigs may appear to be a simple story. But as Ellen Handler...

October 08, 2012

How To Avoid Being Killed By a Black Swan

Black Swan is a term and theory coined by Nassim Taleb that describes an unpredictable event...

October 06, 2012

The New Yorker‘s 7 Greatest Covers of the Century

Over 10,000 different magazines will be published this year in the U.S. Of those, approximately...

October 04, 2012

Why Liberal Arts Majors Wouldn’t Want to Live on a Space Colony

Think about what life in a space colony would be like: a hermetically sealed, climate-controlled...

October 03, 2012

Tallis’s Daily Hallucinating Delusional Syndrome

If I told you that I had a neurological disease which meant that for eight...

October 03, 2012

Why We Cannot Be the Source of Our Own Existential Meaning

"There is not one big cosmic meaning for all," said writer Anaïs Nin, expressing an...

October 03, 2012

Racial Segregation’s Lasting Influence on Sign Language

Black American sign language and American sign language are different languages: Some differences result from...

October 02, 2012

Robin Marantz Henig explains the significance of Valium: It as one of the first psychoactive...