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Payday, and thus time to order John Keay's new history of China , which bids fair to be the first-ever general history of China in Engli...

Figure 14.3 - "Where Not to Stand While Someone Attacks a Tank": (Via Yglesias .)

TBA will not be carving one of these: But if you have "4-10 hours," then have at it . (Via TNR .)

Well, finally . The Mississippi Supreme Court at last spells out what had been generally regarded as the law, but never put quite so clearly...

Scott Horton interviews Mark Danner , who puts rather better than TBA can our shared reaction to the new administration: Those who thought t...

Puns aplenty I'm sure regarding the Montana jury award of $850K to the parents of an 18-year-old pitcher killed when an ball from an al...

The barons who pushed Magna Carta on John were led by, among others, Stephen Langton , the Archbishop of Canterbury, who is also the fellow ...

Wikipedia has a big-ass reproduction of Fan Kuan 's Travelers Among Mountains and Streams . The painting is 6.75 feet long, and arguably...

LGF relays an article on the mysteriously inchoate recognition that nuclear power is much more environment-friendly than oil. Maybe it...

Still alive , still litigating .

Dark satanic mill, indeed. James Fallows provides this photo by Lu Guang of a Chinese power plant in Inner Mongolia.

Tell me what a man finds sexually attractive, and I will tell you his entire philosophy of life. -- Ayn Rand, quoted in New York magazine . ...

Basically, unless you want to hear about how (1) sinus infections suck or (2) reply briefs in Medicare reimbursement challenges suck, there...

Kieran at CT posts a 1949 Life Mag chart , setting forth the characteristic tastes of the highbrow, lowbrow, and upper/lower-middlebrows. ...

Via 3QD , Richard Dawkins notes four of his favorite Unsolved Mysteries of Evolution : The origin of life : It might surprise some of Dawkin...