Calvin and Hobbes walk into a bar. Grammar cop says Oh no they didn’t.
From today’s Read 2 You’d think a column arguing that Calvin and Hobbes is the best comic strip ever couldn’t start an argument. Yet it does. ...
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How you read, Alice Munro writes, and war comes home
Here are three of the five items on today’s edition of my semi-regular “Read 2 of these and call me in the morning” mailing. The life, death, and resurrection o...
The gassy dead. A million-genome march. How to do science.
What to do with the dead? This timeless problem took extra urgency in Victorian London. Excerpted from the book Dirty Old London, by Lee Jackson, in the Guardia...
Alice Munro has some very bad news. Plus consciousness and Brits on the dole.
Three of thefive reads from today’s edition of my Read Two newsletter. You can get the other two here or sign up for more. Why can’t the world’s greatest ...
The war on Billie Holiday; happy marriages; racist Oregon
The War on Drugs started with Billie Holiday. – Johann Hari, POLITICO Jazz was the opposite of everything Harry Anslinger believed in. It is improv...
Is SCOTUS’s gambit to wreck healthcare unprecedented?
Linda Greenhouse says it is — and that next to SCOTUS’s decision to put Obamacare on the choppping block, Bush v. Gore was nothing. There was no urgency. There ...
Read Two: Philosophy of the pee-pee dance; fun failures.
The Philosophical Implications of the Need to Pee. By Daniel Yudkin at Scientific American. What if I were to tell you, for instance, that belief in free will i...
Ferguson autopsies, dirty debt collection, and the worst video game ever
Autopsy Shows Michael Brown Was Struck at Least 6 Times. By Frances Robles and Julie Bosman Dr. Baden said that while Mr. Brown was shot at least six times, onl...
Read Two: Data-crunching murderous misogyny, Kasparov loses, Shark Week is shit
Data Scientists Are Uncovering War Crimes in Syria. By Lorenzo-Frencheschi-Biccierai. Although the war in Syria is essentially too dangerous for journalists or ...