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Articles to Read

Here are a variety of articles I have read recently or was pending to be read ... they just keep accumulating on 50 browser tabs. Ever growing, growing, growing ...

  1. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/13/eva-rausing-story-white-noise-age?newsfeed=true
  2. http://www.granta.com/New-Writing/The-Goddamn-Particle
  3. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/rachel-maddows-quiet-war-20120627?page=2
  4. http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-scam-wall-street-learned-from-the-mafia-20120620
  5. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/09/health/new-frontiers-of-cancer-treatment-bring-breathtaking-swings.html?_r=4
  6. http://www.businessinsider.com/the-secret-lives-of-teenagers-online-a-full-report-from-business-insider-2012-7?utm_source=twbutton&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=sai#-3
  7. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/12/health/research/rare-gene-mutation-is-found-to-stave-off-alzheimers.html?_r=3&hpw
  8. http://edition.cnn.com/2012/07/24/opinion/urry-sally-ride/index.html
  9. http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/07/24/157282357/which-is-bigger-a-human-brain-or-the-universe?sc=tw&cc=share
  10. http://blogs.ft.com/the-a-list/2012/07/25/the-peculiar-case-of-the-american-vice-presidency/?Authorised=false#axzz21ckxR5Wm
  11. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2012/07/the-astronaut-bride.html
  12. http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/johncassidy/2012/07/is-america-crazy-ten-reasons-it-might-be.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true
  13. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/oliver-burkemans-blog/2012/jul/25/mitt-romney-welcome-britain-tip?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
  14. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/25/opinion/alone-in-the-void.html
  15. http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/07/sally-ride-remembered/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=socialmedia&utm_campaign=wiredscienceclickthru
  16. http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/1983/07/13/sally-ride-ready-for-liftoff.html
  17. http://www.vanityfair.com/business/2012/08/microsoft-lost-mojo-steve-ballmer?mbid=social_twitter
  18. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4698/the-art-of-fiction-no-24-aldous-huxley#.UAbRh5VUQrM.twitter
  19. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
  20. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2129/the-art-of-fiction-no-127-reynolds-price#.UAAtboBoVAE.twitter
  21. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/30/120730fa_fact_remnick?currentPage=all
  22. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n17/neal-ascherson/lust-for-leaks
  23. http://www.lrb.co.uk/v13/n03/alexander-cockburn/right-stuff
  24. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1550/the-art-of-humor-no-1-woody-allen
  25. http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/07/30/letter-from-india-rajiv-and-the-potassium-parmanganate/#.UBb3qiqMcQ0.twitter
  26. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/health/views/for-some-aids-patients-only-a-cure-will-do.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto
  27. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/health/views/a-world-without-hiv-still-seems-worlds-away.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto
  28. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html?_r=1&ref=books&pagewanted=all
  29. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/science/space/curiosity-nasa-rover-ready-for-mars-landing.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&seid=auto
  30. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jul/27/tim-parks-life-in-writing?CMP=twt_gu
  31. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/magazine/22amises.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all&gwh=E3E091FB4F1CC485B95DA71937ACDC54
  32. http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2007/nov/25/bookscomment.religion
  33. http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2007/nov/19/race.bookscomment
  34. http://www.vulture.com/2012/07/in-conversation-martin-amis.html
  35. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/fashion/newly-wed-and-quickly-unraveling-modern-love.html?pagewanted=all
  36. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/with-apple%E2%80%99s-siri-a-romance-gone-sour/
  37. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/22/fashion/when-a-mother-is-a-professional-profiler-modern-love.html?pagewanted=all
  38. http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/between-you-and-me.aspx
  39. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_views_of_Albert_Einstein
  40. http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2012/07/17/transcript-schmidt-thiel/
  41. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4598/the-art-of-poetry-no-5-ezra-pound#.T9YKZPtuoNk.twitter
  42. http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2005/03/the-truth-about-harvard/3726/
  43. http://www.economist.com/blogs/analects/2012/07/attitudes-towards-homosexuality?fsrc=scn%2Ftw%2Fte%2Fbl%2Fgaymarriagegonewrong
  44. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/3917/the-art-of-fiction-no-50-gore-vidal#.T7uz9R56Uyk.twitter
  45. http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/08/eisenhower-memorial-conflict-dc
  46. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/07/23/120723fa_fact_bilger
  47. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/1505/the-art-of-fiction-no-143-susan-sontag#.T9i-cIfUK4g.twitter
  48. http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2012/07/14/when-parents-hover-and-kids-dont-grow-up/let-kids-stumble-and-learn-to-get-back-up
  49. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/opinion/sunday/the-breast-feeding-wars.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytopinion&seid=auto
  50. http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/619/the-art-of-journalism-no-1-hunter-s-thompson#.UAQqoJk0ZC0.twitter
  51. http://keller.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/31/boomers-and-entitlements-the-backlash/?smid=tw-share
  52. http://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/our-4th-annual-column-contest
  53. http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/01/books/gore-vidal-elegant-writer-dies-at-86.html?_r=1&smid=tw-nytimespolitics&seid=auto
  54. http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/01/gore-vidal-dies?CMP=twt_fd
  55. http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=why-india-just-suffered&WT.mc_id=SA_sharetool_Twitter
  56. http://vimeo.com/45878034
  57. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/07/20/nyregion/a-sound-tour-of-new-york-city.html?smid=tw-share
  58. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Urban_legends


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