Lynn Peril is the author of “Pink Think: Becoming a Woman in Many Uneasy Lessons.” She tells Steve Paulson that an idealized feminine identity was marketed to women to get them to buy all sorts of things, from beauty products to toys.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Nick Bostrom is a philosopher at Yale. In his paper “The Simulation Argument,” he makes the case that life as we know it may be a computer simulation being run by our descendants.
“The Onyx Project” is the world’s first fully browse-able, truly interactive movie.
Leslie Klinger tells Jim Fleming about the new edition of the "New Annotated Sherlock Holmes"
This week we mourn the death of Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Here's his English translator, Edith Grossman.
Writer Peter Mayle tells Steve Paulson about growing French wine, and drinking rather a lot of it.
Depression can mean two things: a downturn in the economy and an illness of the psyche.
Matthew Carter designed Verdana, the internet font; Helvetica, the most ubiquitous font family in the world; and Bell Centennial, the phone book font.
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