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Measurement

In Search of Lost Time

by Tom Vanderbilt,

The science of the perfect second

Test Perp

From a questionnaire created by Northpointe, a company that develops software to determine the likelihood that a defendant in a criminal trial will break the law in the future. The…

Atlas Aggregated

by Walter Kirn,

No social encounter delights me more than meeting a doctor at a cocktail party. In clinical settings, doctors tend to be guarded and aloof. Catch one with a whiskey in…

The New New Narcissism

by Kristin Dombek,

By Kristin Dombek, from The Selfishness of Others, a monograph that was published this month by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Dombek is the recipient of a 2013 Rona Jaffe award.

Invisible and Insidious

by William T. Vollmann,

Living at the edge of Fukushima’s nuclear disaster

For Whom the Cell Tolls

by Nathaniel Rich,

Why your phone may (or may not) be killing you

Conning the Climate

by Mark Schapiro,

Inside the carbon-trading shell game

The expanding spectrum

by John L. Chapman,

Space-messengers, missile-detectors, and people-watchers

How Much Poison are You Breathing?

by Charles Schaeffer, Art Cosing,

The carefully documented facts on one of the most sinister—and widely ignored—menaces to the nation’s health . . .

The architecture of matter

by Alfred J. (Alfred James) Lotka,

A new conception of the universe

by Alfred J. (Alfred James) Lotka,

Einstein's theory of relativity, with illustrative examples