Get High or Die Trying
If you read “Outside,” stay home. When we celebrate a hiker who sawed off his hand, we pay tribute to an idiot and ignore countless smarter climbers.
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15 November 2010: Afternoon
Aung San Suu Kyi shares a path with Mandela and Havel. If the past is any guide, Aung San Suu Kyi will soon try to behave like a politician. Partnership lessons from Keith Richards and Michael Eisner: share absolute trust and love of money. Disney employees stand to be terminated
15 November 2010: Morning
Bush names who encouraged him to invade Iraq: Mubarak, Saudi Arabia's Prince Bandar, Elie Wiesel. Unlike Iran, Glenn Beck invokes loving Israel after calling Soros a money-grubbing puppetmaster. British politician arrested for ha-ha wishing columnist be stoned to death. Global surge sees more women elected, but
Dystopian Dioramas
Looking at one of photographer Lori Nix’s pictures, something feels amiss long before you realize that the lifelike objects she portrays—bar stools, fountains, books, plants—are handmade and impossibly tiny.
12 November 2010: Weekend
How "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" traveled from a rousing call to arms to "the music that concludes great American lives." More from Dominic Tierney: In early America, the military was an essential work force and exploration team. On Radiolab, a look deep inside cities
Interlude by the Bay
With his old life again behind him, The Golem returns to looking ahead to what’s next—or at least trying—and finally gets around to answering some reader email.
Iain McGilchrist
Iain McGilchrist is a psychiatrist and writer who works in London. He was awarded a Prize Fellowship of All Souls College, Oxford, in 1975 for teaching English, and later trained in medicine. His new book, The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World,
11 November 2010: Morning
Preliminary White House budget would cut federal spending deficit by hundreds of billions a year. In the proposed cuts, 10% of federal workers will be laid off; those left face a three-year salary freeze. John Boehner plans to do his part by flying commercial air to Washington, rather than
Sexy Singing Vampires of the 1960s
Pop culture is fizzy. Mainstream TV is where the fizz goes flat. A preview of the networks' forthcoming dramas based on trendy Twitter feeds.
11 November 2010: Afternoon
Pakistan mixes advertising and checkpoints; messages include "Stop. Security Check. Tasty." Haiti has 10,000 with cholera in hospitals; 270,000 expected infected in "between six months and a year." Election map from 1896 New York Times. Video: Footage of students and anarchists protesting tuition hikes