A Christian missionary sets out to convert a remote Amazonian tribe. He lives with them for years in primitive conditions, learns their extremely difficult language, risks his life battling malaria, giant anacondas, and sometimes the tribe itself. In a plot twist, instead of converting them he loses…

The magical incubator. How did a dim, poorly ventilated, absestos-ridden building at MIT become a hub of groundbreaking innovation?... - ALD

Don Johnson won nearly $6 million playing blackjack in one night, single-handedly decimating the monthly revenue of Atlantic City’s Tropicana casino. Not long before that, he’d taken the Borgata for $5 million and Caesars for $4 million. Here’s how he did it.

Upon death, Christopher Hitchens was greeted by Orwell. Hitchens didn’t believe his eyes. “This is all a delusion, my dear boy,” Orwell told him, “but enjoy it while you can”... - ALD

Outstanding analysis of Research In Motion: Its history, management, failure to capitalise on early BlackBerry success, and future potential. Are we watching the end of a once iconic brand? Or the start of a turnaround? - BRWSR

Will no one speak up for pleasure? "We tiptoe around the heterosexual woman’s unsightly libido, and end up with a strangely euphemistic rhetoric, a defence of birth control that seems to involve no sex, desire, sperm, or men" - Browser

Taylor Wilson always dreamed of creating a star. Now he’s become one

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One day an ebullient and prolific hacker vanished from the Web. Blog, Twitter feed, open-source code: gone. It’s called infosuicide...

Is atheism futile? Probably. Faith is a natural response to human ignorance. Besides, the history of attempts to destroy religion is littered with the corpses... - ALD

Anxiety and influence. Amitava Kumar used to be enthralled by Salman Rushdie’s engaged, worldly prose. Then Kumar grew up and found that adulation had given way to disappointment... - ALD

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India, whose creation as a republic is the most recklessly ambitious experiment in history, has flourished. But old strains put the future in peril

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I’ve edited a monthly magazine for more than six years, and it’s a job that’s come with more frustration than reward. If there’s one thing I am grateful for — and it sure isn’t the pay — it’s that my work has allowed endless time to hone my craft to Louis Skolnick levels of grammar geekery. As…

When the find was revealed to be a ‘cheap fraud’, several eminent men – including Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – were put in the frame. Now scientists aim to put an end to the mystery once and for all

By Melanie Bayley What would Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland be without the Cheshire Cat, the trial, the Duchess’s baby or the Mad Hatter’s tea party? Look at the original story that the author told Alice Liddell and her two sisters one day during a boat trip near Oxford, though,…

Mawson's epic three-week march to safety is one of the greatest survival stories in the history of polar exploration

A COUPLE of weeks ago, I replaced my three-year-old BlackBerry Pearl with a much more powerful BlackBerry Bold. Needless to say, I was impressed with how far the technology had advanced in three years. Even when I didn’t have anybody to call or text or e-mail, I wanted to keep fondling my new Bold…

News & Culture Burning Man On his first tour of duty in Afghanistan, Sam Brown was set on fire by an improvised explosive device. He survived, only to find himself, like thousands of other vets, doomed to a post-traumatic life of unbearable pain. Even hallucinogen-grade drugs offered little relief,…

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