From the Magazine — December 18, 2012, 5:46 pm
The Settlers of Catan’s Greenhouse Rules
“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”
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Chance that an American adult under the age of 54 suffers from mental-health and/or substance-abuse problems:
Bees can remember human faces, but only if they are tricked into thinking that we are strange flowers.
Scientists at the University of Washington proposed to test the idea that the universe is a computer simulation run by our descendants by searching for “glitches” in the paths of cosmic rays. “I am sure you are real,” physicist Martin Savage told a journalist. “You are as real as I am.”
From the Magazine — December 18, 2012, 5:46 pm
“For every five oils used, an environmental disaster results.”
Weekly Review — December 18, 2012, 8:00 am
Yet another tragic mass shooting in the United States
No Comment — December 14, 2012, 9:12 am
A European human rights court hands down the first binding decision against Bush-era rendition techniques
The Anti-Economist — December 13, 2012, 3:47 pm
The Federal Reserve makes jobs a priority at last
Conversation — December 12, 2012, 12:51 pm
“[T]o be an artist . . . you really have to blast the launch pad to get liftoff, scorching everything and everyone around you, and you cause a lot of damage sometimes.”
Mentions — December 11, 2012, 2:44 pm
“I realized that to move, I’d need the approval of some grand poobah.”
Weekly Review — December 11, 2012, 8:00 am
Typhoon tears, undiplomatic leg-crossing, and a fashionable Canadian macaque
From the Magazine — December 7, 2012, 11:00 am
An economic companion to the Messiah
Weekly Review — December 4, 2012, 8:00 am
Syria’s communications blackout, North Korea’s unicorn lair, and Iceland’s ram-penis economy
From the Magazine — December 3, 2012, 7:05 pm
“These rich farm bastards . . . support fat institutions of learning like the University of Iowa, which should be able to pay a decent fee for writers to come and titillate the same farmers’ daughters . . .”
Mentions — December 3, 2012, 4:05 pm
On the matter of conscious v. conscience in Prince's
“I Would Die 4 U”
No Comment, Six Questions — December 3, 2012, 2:23 pm
Tina Rosenberg on the British spy novelist who hoodwinked Hitler
Official Business — November 30, 2012, 5:49 pm
Join Harper’s publisher John R. MacArthur and columnist Thomas Frank at the New York Society for Ethical Culture on Tuesday, December 4
Weekly Review — November 27, 2012, 8:00 am
“There has never been a battle,” said a general of the Free Syrian Army, “with this much booty.”
Mentions — November 21, 2012, 3:12 pm
Mark Crispin Miller’s August 2005 cover story for Harper’s, “None Dare Call It Stolen,” earns a mention in the New York Times.
From the Magazine — November 20, 2012, 2:30 pm
Why development persists in coastal areas, despite the threat of hurricanes
Weekly Review — November 20, 2012, 8:00 am
Turmoil in Gaza, Republican hand-wringing, and a narcoleptic goat named Voldemort
The Anti-Economist — November 19, 2012, 12:07 pm
On Stone’s compulsive—and necessary—historical revisions
The American roots of Uganda’s anti-gay persecutions
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