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Displaying articles for: September 2009

September 28, 2009

Numbers

From Innumeracy to The Education of T. C. Mits, an exploration of the powers and pleasures of mathematics.

September 20, 2009

Advertising

Tell-alls, tips, and tricks of the real Mad Men.

September 10, 2009

Conspiracy

Cults, cabals, and secret societies in history, literature, and fantasy (or maybe not).

September 10, 2009

Back to School

Work Hard. Be Nice. -- and other simple and not-so-simple truths about teaching and learning.

August 24, 2009

Seafood

Alaskan fisherman, French oysters, New England clambakes, the story of cod, and more.

Daybook

May 22: The video game Pac-Man, featuring "the most iconic character from the golden age of arcade video games," was released on this day in 1980. Over the next decade, gamers spent over $2.5 billion in quarters…

Previously in Daybook

In the Margin

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin.

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The Long List

Books, CDs, DVDs to know about now

She Left Me the Gun

Emma Brockes' mother Paula escaped from South Africa with a smuggled pistol and a dark secret. A daughter unravels her family's covert past -- and a suspenseful legal drama -- in this hard-boiled memoir of survival.

Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Expand your memory, puzzle-solving skills, and sense of metaphysical wonder with philosopher Daniel C. Dennett's tasting menu of user-friendly neuroscience and poetic lingual pursuits.

When the Devil Drives

Thespian-turned-P.I. Jasmine Sharp searches for a missing actress and veteran detective Catherine MacLeod tries to solve the case of a murdered one. Their paths intertwine amid the Scottish theater community with uproarious and gory results.