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I won't even try to link to all of the amazing reviews that have been pouring in from all sources for Charles Burnett's Killer of Sh...

The BBC reports that binary solar systems are a lot more common than we thought. And they totally lead with a picture of Luke Skywalker! Wh...

A fantastic tease of a story, complete with new photos, about a 1976 fistfight between Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa. I wan...

The Chronicle of Higher Education has a nice audio interview (welcome to the digital age, CHE!) with Brewster Kahle, who heads up the Open ...

Great interview on energy policy, or the lack thereof, in Foreign Policy with the Earth Policy Institute's Lester Brown. Highlights: L...

Read this: Ahmed took two taxis to the Green Zone, then walked the last few hundred yards, or drove a different route every day. He carried ...

Details of Pearl's death, from a May 2004 article in the UK's Telegraph, via Andrew Sullivan at The Daily Dish. Simultaneously horr...

There's a good article in the New York Times by Teresa Tritch called "Helping People Help Themselves, " about the influence of...

A reprinted classic from Slate on the amazing Saint Patrick , about whom everything you know is false and everything you don't know is m...

Peep this, from the New York Times: TimesSelect is now free for University Students and Faculty. If you've got an .edu address, click on...