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The Long Rescue

A man’s search for his kidnapped children

Findings

A study of 4,494 Swedish twins found gay men to be better at theater. Young adults approve of mama’s boys, but think they should act less feminine. Male–male same-sex genital…

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

by Rebecca Solnit,

On April 24, 1916 — Easter Monday — Irish republicans in Dublin and a handful of other places staged an armed rebellion against British occupation. At the time, the British…

Red Light Therapy

by Adam Phillips,

By Adam Phillips, from Unforbidden Pleasures, which was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Phillips is a psychoanalyst and the author of more than fifteen books.

From 216 words expressing well-being, happiness, and pleasure that were collected by Tim Lomas, a lecturer at the University of East London. Lomas’s paper “Towards a Positive Cross-cultural Lexicography” was…

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by Andrea and Magda,

Con Voyage

by Wolfgang Bauer, Sarah Pybus,

From Crossing the Sea, by Wolfgang Bauer. In 2014, Bauer, a German journalist for Die Zeit, traveled undercover with Syrian refugees on a boat headed from Egypt to Greece. His…

Rallying Tries

From posters painted by North Korean artists and sold internationally by an Italian company.

Unhackable

by Paul Wachter,

The quest for an email the government can’t read

American Imperium

by Andrew J. Bacevich,

Untangling truth and fiction in an age of perpetual war

21st century

The Long Rescue

Findings

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The Habits of Highly Cynical People

Red Light Therapy

Joy to The World

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Con Voyage

Rallying Tries

Unhackable

American Imperium

Debug

21st century

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The Long Rescue

Findings

(Untitled)

The Habits of Highly Cynical People

Red Light Therapy

Joy to The World

(Untitled)

Con Voyage

Rallying Tries

Unhackable

American Imperium

May 2016

Debug