Six Questions — June 2, 2008, 1:36 pm
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Six Questions — June 2, 2008, 1:36 pm
By Bill Wasik
Article — From the September 2006 issue
Literacy in the age of video games
By Bill Wasik (Editor), Jane Avrich, Raph Koster, , Thomas De Zengotita
Article — From the April 2006 issue
Military thinkers discuss the unthinkable
By Bill Wasik (Editor), A.J. Bacevich, , ,
Article — From the March 2006 issue
Or, phase 5: A report from the inventor of the flash mob
By Bill Wasik
Article — From the September 2005 issue
When campus Republicans play the diversity card
By Bill Wasik (Editor), Stanley Eugene Fish, , ,
Article — From the November 2004 issue
Notes on the origin of specious
By Bill Wasik
Review — From the March 2003 issue
The march of personal-finance journalism
By Bill Wasik
Article — From the December 2001 issue
The tormenting face of Osama bin Laden
By Bill Wasik
Article — From the January 2000 issue
By Carin Besser (Researcher), Thomas Hopkins (Researcher), Bill Wasik (N/A)

Years of consideration preceding the inclusion of the word “phat” in Random House’s 1996 Compact Unabridged Dictionary:

Scientists created crash helmets that stink when cracked and fruit flies to whom blue light smells delicious.

In Belize, a construction company bulldozed a 2,300-year-old Mayan temple to make road fill.
“This is the heart of the magic factory, the place where medicine is infused with the miracles of science, and I’ve come to see how it’s done.”
© 2012 Harper’s Magazine. Logo photograph (detail) by Nadia Shira Cohen.

