In the march of time, some people have gone far ahead, while some other people have lagged behind. Why so? Guns, Germs, and Steel is an attempt to answer this question. The author, Jared Diamond, ...

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To paraphrase the writer Pankaj Mishra, we live in an age of partisan fury stoked by the blue flames (and blue checks) of ...

Bird by Bird encouraged would-be writers to blast past their hang-ups and embrace “shitty first drafts.” But there’s more to ...

“I can’t help but notice we are in a Whole Foods,” I tell a Whole Foods employee who—perhaps having noticed me walking around ...

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There is no disease known to mankind which causes more aggravation than the common cold. The symptoms of this affliction need ...

What a blur the last two weeks were! Between the usual holiday hubbub, working retail, fending off the flu and wishing, ...

I have a dear friend who invites me to stay when I’m in town. I usually stay for four days or so at a time, and I take him ...

Office worker Park Jihye, 38 years old, began reading *Cosmos* on the 1st. Carl Sagan’s *Cosmos*, which explores the origins ...

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The intrigues therefore are no strange occurrences. They are the intricate nexus of two successive generations under the same ...