More is more – nowhere is that truer than at the world’s most powerful atom smasher, the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, where scientists last week concluded a six-month series of experiments where they forced infinitesimally tiny particles to smash against each other at double the energy…

It was easy for Megan Phelps-Roper to tweet things that made people cringe—she knew that they were evil or deluded by God. Photograph by Katy Grannan for The New Yorker On December 1, 2009, to commemorate World AIDS Day, Twitter announced a promotion: if users employed the hashtag #red, their tweets…

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Five years ago, the book world was seized by collective panic over the uncertain future of print. As readers migrated to new digital devices, e-book sales soared, up 1,260 percent between 2008 and 2010, alarming booksellers that watched consumers use their stores to find titles they would later buy…

A recent piece in the New York Times about a decline in e-book sales had more than a whiff of anti-digital Schadenfreude about it. The story, which was based on sales figures from the Association of American Publishers, implied that much of the hype around e-books had evaporated — with sales falling…

We asked legendary oceanographer Sylvia Earle for her menu advice. Oceanographer (and TED Prize winner ) Sylvia Earle (TED Talk: My wish: Protect our oceans ) has spent half a century campaigning to save the world’s seas. A new Netflix original documentary about her life’s work sheds light on the…

La variolizzazione, o preistoria della vaccinazione. Esiste una pratica medica che permette di acquistare l’immunità da una pericolosissima malattia infettiva, molto contagiosa e spesso mortale; quando non procura la morte c’è comunque il pericolo di riportare danni permanenti, di perdere la vista o…

Quasi tutti i libri italiani sono in Garamond, anzi, per essere più precisi, in Simoncini Garamond, un carattere disegnato da un tipografo francese nel Cinquecento – Claude Garamond – e rimaneggiato da un tipografo bolognese nel 1958 – Francesco Simoncini. Significa che se i libri italiani fossero…

From 2009 to 2013, every book I read, I read on a screen. And then I stopped. You could call my four years of devout screen‑reading an experiment. I felt a duty – not to anyone or anything specifically, but more vaguely to the idea of ‘books’. I wanted to understand how their boundaries were…

Secondo il Rapporto sullo Stato dell’editoria in Italia dell’Associazione Italiana Editori appena completato, il mercato italiano dei libri italiano nel 2014 è calato del 4,3 per cento. Molto più che nel 2013 quando era calato del 2,6, ma un po’ meno che nel 2012 quando era sceso del 5.…

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On an overcast afternoon in late April, physics professors and students crowded into a wood-paneled lecture hall at Columbia University for a talk by Nima Arkani-Hamed, a high-profile theorist visiting from the Institute for Advanced Study in nearby Princeton, N.J. With his dark, shoulder-length…

(Stock image from Deposit Photos) Preface by Roy Peter Clark Twenty years ago, Poynter published a series of booklets on the mission and craft of journalism. One, a little red book titled "The Sayings of Chairman Mel," honored the journalism aphorisms of Melvin Mencher, a legendary journalism…

Much writing by Holocaust survivors does not quite tell a tale, but Levi had a powerfully narrative imagination. Photograph by Jillian Edelstein / Camera Press / Redux Primo Levi did not consider it heroic to have survived eleven months in Auschwitz. Like other witnesses of the concentration camps,…

The early days of the Internet were much different from today; one of the main means of group communication was through Usenet newsgroups, collections of distributed message boards. ARS was one of these; created in 1991, it soon became a place for critics to share their views on the church. It…

Natural Sciences Nima Arkani-Hamed leads efforts to build Higgs factory and supercollider By Kelly Devine Thomas · Published 2015 Center for Future High Energy Physics Clockwise from left: Nima Arkani-Hamed, Chen Hesheng, Nobel Laureate David Gross, and Yifang Wang at the inauguration of the Center…

Get Nima Arkani-Hamed going on the subject of the universe — not difficult — and he’ll talk for as many minutes or hours as it takes to transport you to the edge of human understanding, and then he’ll talk you past the edge, beyond Einstein, beyond space-time and quantum mechanics and all those…

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Editor’s Note: On Tuesday night, Chris Hedges and Sam Harris debated “Religion, Politics and the End of the World.” The following is Hedges’ opening statement, in which he argues that Harris and other critics of faith have mistakenly blamed religion for the ills of the world, when the true danger…

Kim Davis, a county clerk in Kentucky, directly disobeyed a federal judge’s order to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. To what extent should we allow people to break the law if their religious views are in conflict with it? Photo by Ty Wright/Getty As a physicist, I do a lot of writing and…

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Getty Images How big is Google? We can answer that question in terms of revenue or stock price or customers or, well, metaphysical influence. But that’s not all. Google is, among other things, a vast empire of computer software. We can answer in terms of code. Google’s Rachel Potvin came pretty…

Civic obligation used to trumped religious expression. Now belief carries a shopping-cart approach to citizenship: http://t.co/cErfEKmPCf

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28 luglio 2015 11:36 Una delle cose strane di Scientology è il suo uso della lingua. Qualche tempo fa, è trapelata sul web l’intervista all’attrice Laura Prepon pubblicata su una delle riviste di Scientology, ma in fondo potevamo anche non leggerla, dato che è incomprensibile. Prepon sostiene di…

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MY mother and her 17 brothers and sisters had an Orthodox upbringing — all photographs of their father show him wearing a yarmulke, and I was told that he woke up if it fell off during the night. My father, too, came from an Orthodox background. Both my parents were very conscious of the Fourth…

This is a guest post by Niklas Goeke. Niklas is a freelance writer and coach on coach.me . Action is his cure to anything, so he won’t be mad at you if you cut some corners and jump right to the audiobook and video workshop version of this post. Have you ever felt like there are just not enough…

(Photo: xNstAbLe/Shutterstock) A couple of months ago, the sex education notice came home in my nine-year-old son's backpack. I didn't realize that, in our district, sex ed starts in the fourth grade. Another sign of the state having more access to my baby than I sometimes wish. When I handed the…

NEW Year’s resolutions often have to do with eating more healthfully, going to the gym more, giving up sweets, losing weight — all admirable goals aimed at improving one’s physical health. Most people, though, do not realize that they can strengthen their brains in a similar way. While some areas of…

Hallucinations, whether revelatory or banal, are not of supernatural origin; they are part of the normal range of human consciousness and experience. This is not to say that they cannot play a part in the spiritual life, or have great meaning for an individual. Yet while i

The Science Of Love In The 21st Century Eve Fairbanks Once upon a time, in the Pony Expresso cafe in Seattle, a man and a woman began to experience the long-mysterious but increasingly scientifically investigated thing we call love. The first stage is called "limerence." This is the spine-tingling,…

“B ut what about boobs? Does a person still get boobs? ” One of the boys in the WiseGuyz sexual education class, at Georges P. Vanier School in northeastern Calgary, is struggling to understand the mechanics of being intersex (born with a combination of male and female genitals and/or chromosomes).…

Published: August 2015 Will the Pope Change the Vatican? Or Will the Vatican Change the Pope? As Francis makes his first U.S. visit, his emphasis on serving the poor over enforcing doctrine has inspired joy and anxiety in Roman Catholics. By Robert Draper Photographs by Dave Yoder When about 7,000…

Last February, 59-year-old Ned Overend, aka “The Lung,” aka “Deadly Nedly,” won the first National Fatbike Championships , held in Ogden, Utah. Fat Bike Nats isn’t exactly the Tour de France, but it’s no charity ride, either. Overend had to compete against a field of much younger pros, including…

L'amateur de littérature serait-il devenu une espèce menacée ? Tous les signes sont là. Son habitat se raréfie : à Paris, par exemple, 83 librairies ont disparu entre 2011 et 2014. Et sa population ne cesse de décliner. Selon une enquête Ipsos/ Livres Hebdo de mars 2014, le nombre de lecteurs avait…

This year’s Hugo Awards controversy is confusing. There are two kinds of puppies! Are the puppies against diversity, or literary snobbery? And so on. But really, this is all about books, and particularly what kind of books we’re supposed to celebrate. So here are eight books that can help you…

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