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Reason
January 2009
Damon W. Root |
The Trouble With Thomas Jefferson The eloquent Founder's original sin described in The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family, by Annette Gordon-Reed.   |
ifeminists
December 29, 2008
Wendy McElroy |
Mary Wollstoncraft Wollstonecraft is a founding mother of feminism and her most famous work Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792) is widely viewed as the first great feminist treatise. |
| Science News |
Bargaining For Eden: The Fight For The Last Open Spaces In America By Stephen Trimble A writer, photographer and environmentalist tells character-driven stories of land-use disputes in the American West. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Daniel C. Schlenoff |
100 Years Ago: Inaccurately Explaining Earthquakes A voice from the scopes trial... The atomic nucleus... Wood for the iron horse... Why earthquakes occur... The function of comets... |
Science News
Janet Raloff |
Of Presidents And Nobels If Barack Obama confirms that Steven Chu is to become the new Energy Secretary (something that is expected, next week), the Lawrence Berkeley lab chief will become the first individual to assume a Cabinet position while already in possession of a Nobel Prize. |
Popular Mechanics
December 10, 2008 |
4 Stories from Popular Mechanics' Archives Coverage of the Apollo Mission... The world's fastest Indian motorcyclist... Do-it-yourself projects from the depression era... The development of the Interstate Highway System... |
AskMen.com
Mr. Mafioso |
Mob Capitals Of The U.S. The family has been in just about every major city you can think of in this great country. Here is a history of the family in four cities -- the mob capitals of the U.S. |
CFO
December 1, 2008
Edward Teach |
"Every Crisis Begins with a Shock" Panic then and now -- the enduring legacy of 1907. |
Reason
December 2008
Katherine Mangu-Ward |
The Halfway Mark In 1988, in its 20th anniversary issue, reason reminded readers how much better things were than in 1968, and predicted how they might be in 2008. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Kieron Murphy |
Below the Radar The untold story of how the U.S. Navy trained thousands of radar operators in World War II. |
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