Weidensaul, Scott: A World on the Wing
Researchers have found that in advance of their flights, migrant birds can bulk up with new muscle mass without really exercising, something humans would...
Conover, Ted: Cheap Land Colorado
The local expert on cold-calling is Matt Little, charged by the social service group La Puente with “rural outreach.” Matt has let me ride...
Yong, Ed: An Immense World
Philosophers have long pitied the goldfish in its bowl, unaware of what lies beyond, but our senses create a bowl around us too—one that...
Friedman, Thomas L.: From Beirut to Jerusalem
But in order to make that state economically viable, the Maronites appealed to France to include in it not only their traditional Mt. Lebanon...
Best Remembered Poems
Francis William Bourdillon
The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
The night has a thousand eyes,And the day but one;Yet the light of the bright world diesWith...
Greer, Germaine: The Female Eunuch
Five years ago it seemed clear that emancipation had failed: the number of women in Parliament had settled at a low level; the number...
Brandreth, Gyles D.: Elizabeth
The Prince once asked me, ‘How on earth did Shakespeare manage it? I am Prince of Wales. Shakespeare wasn’t, but he knew exactly what...
Perry, Imani: South to America
Or Dolly Parton, an honest-to-God multimillionaire who grew up a poor mountain woman. She says, “It takes a lot of money to look this...
Wallace-Wells, David: The Uninhabitable Earth
The earth has experienced five mass extinctions before the one we are living through now, each so complete a wiping of the fossil record...
McGuire, Bill: Hothouse Earth
What I mean by hothouse Earth, then, is not an ice-free planet, but a world in which lethal heatwaves and temperatures in excess of...
Smith, Will: Will
Are you paying attention to the wall? Or are you paying attention to the brick? Whether it was acing the tests to get accepted...
Engebrigtsen, Ada I.: Exploring Gypsiness
The Roma did not understand our problem. ‘Just say that your car has broken down, say you have no petrol, just lie’ was their...
Al Aswany, Alaa: The Yacoubian Building
Then he would bring his speech to an end by cursing Abd el Nasser, who had introduced free education, or quote as authority the...
Lamott, Anne: Bird by Bird
In seventh and eighth grades I still weighed about forty pounds. I was twelve years old and had been getting teased about my strange...
Attenborough, David: Life on Earth
Using this method we can estimate that the Last Universal Common Ancestor of all life on earth – commonly known as LUCA, and basically...
Bageant, Joe: Deer Hunting with Jesus
When the middle-class citizens of Winchester or of the new suburbs of America—the 20 percent or so of Americans whose lives most closely resemble...
