Stephen Malina

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Weekly Newsletter

Politics # Clinton Begins the 2016 Campaign, And It’s a Toss-Up Nate Silver, renowned election results predictor and sports …

Mystery # The Mystery of the Millionaire Metaphysician A republishing of an old story, this piece recounts a writer’s search for the …

Mind and Brain # Electrified Investigates the promises and perils of tDCS, the electrical stimulation of the brain proponents claim will …

Books # Rapt Reviews H is for Hawk, a non-fiction book about grief, hawking, and T.H. White. Discusses grief and the quirkiness of hawks and …

Evolution # Possible Creatures A professor of Evolutionary Biology discusses his work mapping “nature’s library” of …

Genocide # Interview with a Torturer An author and survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide in Cambodia attempts to come to terms with his …

Mental Health # The voices in my head: Eleanor Longden’s ‘psychic civil war’ The Guardian interviews Elanor Longden, a …

Science and Technology # Futures of Text A survey of all the current innovation in text as a medium. Argues for the superiority of …

Technology # How I Taught my Computer to Write its Own Music Discusses a successful endeavor to create a computer-based entity that writes …

Philosophy # Do Easy The film and source essay (linked to at the bottom of the page) both convey a philosophy rooted in Taoism, but …

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