Short Schrift

Must listen: Ira Glass, Jad Abumrad, and Robert Krulwich on the differences between radio and television . Includes such gems as how radio a...

Historiscientific nerd alert: There's a hot new method of dating historical artifacts, specifically ceramic artifacts, based on their m...

I am a sucker for long histories, especially when they're summarized with simple schema. Phillip Greenspun wrote this for a talk on how ...

Andrew Hungerford -- aka the smartest, funniest dramatist * astrophysicist = lighting director you should know -- has written the best post ...

Music critic Simon Reynolds praises music's moments of in-between : It rankles a bit that the late '80s are now treated as a mere pr...

Biologists are debating how much quantitative analysis their field needs ; at Language Log, Mark Liberman pivots to linguistics : The role o...

Ta-Nehisi Coates : The idea is that Latinos have a dual experience that whites don't have and that, all things being equal, they'll ...

Suzanne Menghraj loved Pierre Bayard's How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read so much that she read it twice. She wanted to read Baya...

Marvelous profile of Svetlana Gaier, translator of Dostoyevsky into German : Svetlana Ivanov was 18 years old when the Germans marched into ...

We loooove Kevin Kelly around here at Snarkmarket. Robin tipped me off to his stuff and he's since joined Atul Gawande, Roger Ebert, Vir...