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10 hrs ago | The Atlantic

The Tweet That Begins the Zombie Apocalypse

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Blog News, Yale University, Twitter

Sat May 26, 2012

The Atlantic

The Fake Magazines Used in Blade Runner Are Still Futuristic, Awesome

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Pop/Rock, Fake?, Blog News, Yale University, Tumblr, US Politics, US News

Fri May 25, 2012

Investopedia

Debt Complicates The Ultra Petroleum Waiting Game

There's not much more digital ink to be spilled on the state of the natural gas environment.

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Related Topix: Chesapeake Energy, Energy, Oil & Gas, Range Resources Corporation, Anadarko Petroleum, Penn Virginia Corporation, Apache

Thu May 24, 2012

By Common Consent

Review: Paul C. Gutjahr, "The Book of Mormon: A Biography"

Title: The Book of Mormon: A Biography Editor: Paul C. Gutjahr Publisher: Princeton University Press Genre: Religious Studies Year: 2012 Pages: xix, 255 Binding: Cloth with jacket ISBN13: 978-0-691-14480-1 Price: $24.95 The Book of Mormon, that curious text said to be dug from a hill in upstate New York and translated by the gift and power of God, ... (more)

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Related Topix: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism), Religion, The Book of Mormon, Theater, Princeton University

The Atlantic

The Half-Ounce Artifical Heart That Saved a Baby's Life

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Blog News, Yale University, Kidney Cancer, Health

The American Spectator

All in the Family

Giant in the Shadows : The Life of Robert T. Lincoln By Jason Emerson Robert todd lincoln , the oldest of Abraham Lincoln's four sons and the only one to live to adulthood, was one of those Midwestern men of business who made Chicago the post-Civil War center of American commerce and industry-a city, wrote Andrew Ferguson in his splendid Land of ... (more)

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Related Topix: Entertainment, Drama, Television, Journalism, Springfield, IL

Wed May 23, 2012

CNN

Afghan war is not over yet

Editor's note: Stephen Tankel is an assistant professor at American University and a non-resident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.

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Related Topix: World News, Asia, Afghanistan, NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), Opinion

Seven Days

Vermont Authors to Read on the Beach

Her Sister's Shadow by Katharine Britton, Berkley Books, 341 pages. $15 Another women's fiction title, Britton's debut about two aging sisters grappling with the repercussions of a childhood tragedy actually takes place on and around the beach, with pungent seaside atmosphere.

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Related Topix: Vermont, Mercer University, Montpelier, VT, Williston, VT, Bennington, VT

Bellingham Herald

Style trendsetters contemporary and historical are profiled in a bevy of new books out this spring

Twins separated at birth, "most alike - indeed, virtually identical - in their sovereign ambition to be unique." That's how 1930s era fashion designer Elsa Schiaparelli and her modern-day counterpart Miuccia Prada are described in Judith Thurman's introduction to "Schiaparelli and Prada: Impossible Conversations" . The book is the catalog for the ... (more)

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Tue May 22, 2012

The Atlantic

If 10 Berkeley Cops Can't Get the Chief's Son's Phone Back, Your Vigilante Recovery Won't Work Either

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Blog News, Yale University, Berkeley, CA, US Politics, US News

Mon May 21, 2012

CNN

Zelizer: Blame GOP for gridlock

Editor's note: Julian Zelizer is a professor of history and public affairs at Princeton University.

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Related Topix: Princeton University, US News, US Politics, John Boehner, Republican, US House of Representatives, Journalism, Newt Gingrich, Opinion

The Atlantic

All Eyes on Facebook's Stock Monday After a Fascinating IPO

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Social Software, Startups, Facebook, Blog News, Yale University, US Politics, US News

Sun May 20, 2012

The Guardian

Birdbooker Report 222 | @GrrlScientist

Compiled by an ardent bibliophile, this weekly report includes a book about breasts, a genetic portrait of the USA, a biography of Rosalind Franklin, a children's book and much more that have been newly published in North America and the UK Books to the ceiling, Books to the sky, My pile of books is a mile high.

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Related Topix: Genetics, Medicine, Science, Ecology, Rutgers University

Sat May 19, 2012

A Canadian Lefty in Occupied Land

Review: Lament for a Nation

Lament for a Nation: The Defeat of Canadian Nationalism . 40th Anniversary Edition.

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Fri May 18, 2012

Publishers Marketplace

Social Science Editors

Cambridge University Press in New York seeks editors to fill two positions, in American and Latin American History and Politics, and in Middle Eastern and African Studies, programs in which it already has a strong presence.

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Publishers' Weekly

Bright Lines, Big Uncertainty

A "high-profile defeat" for publishers is how Brandon Butler, director of public policy initiatives at the Association of Research Libraries, described the May 11 verdict in Cambridge University Press et.

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Related Topix: Libraries, Georgia State University, Duke University

The Atlantic

Twitter Elite Seriously Overstimated Facebook's Closing Price

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: Startups, Facebook, Twitter, Social Software, Blog News, Yale University

The Atlantic

The Myth of Parisian Life

He is the author of How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Way of War .

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Related Topix: Swarthmore College, Ohio State University, Harvard University, Duke University, Paris, ME, Entertainment

Wed May 16, 2012

The Atlantic

Google Gets Back to Its Roots With New Search Update

He's the author of Powering the Dream: The History and Promise of Green Technology .

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Related Topix: WebMD, Blog News, Yale University, Oregon

Wise Woman Wisdom

Herbal Birth Control

Rediscover the Wise Woman in you...wise woman wisdom, herbal healing, wise woman health, childbearing, menopause, breast health, spirit healing, personal empowerment, and more.

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Related Topix: Menopause, Health, Women's Health

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