How Fiction Fooled Hitler
Pulitzer Prize-winner Tina Rosenberg discusses the novelist who helped defeat the Nazis Jina Moore Before there was James Bond, there was Gregory Sallust. Unlike…
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How to Love Languages You Don’t Even Know
For many people foreign languages are confounding to those who don’t know them. But Jina Moore finds beauty in words she doesn’t know –…
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Six Ideas That Will Shape the World in 2010
New York — There are no iPods in this report. There are also no digital e-readers, no flat-screen televisions, no snowblowers, or lawn mowers…
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The Safety Geeks Who Rescue Us Before Disaster Happens
The best indication that John Drengenberg has been doing his job well, for 40 years, is that you’ve never heard of him. Most of…
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What Happens When You Try to Put All The Words Online
Lexicographer Erin McKean’s interactive ‘Wordnik’ is projected to be the largest online dictionary ever. CHICAGO — Erin McKean doesn’t look much like a revolutionary….
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New York’s Other Skyline — Old-School Water Towers
Squint a little and the sleek modern cityscape reveals old-fashioned water towers in use on most buildings over six stories. On the ground, New…
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What You Hear If You Make a Point of Eavesdropping in New York
On a scorching September afternoon, Morgan Friedman, semi-professional wanderer, must stop. We’ve been moseying through Brooklyn neighborhoods for nearly two hours, because I wanted…
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Meet the Chikudu, Congo’s Creative DIY Wheels
Emanuel Buke won’t train just anyone. Like a swami on a mountaintop, he is discerning about his disciples. For the past 16 years he…
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All Things Must Fight To Live
In Congo brutality seems to be everywhere: history, war, politics; in the landscape and the poverty and the desperate chug of locals’ day-to-day lives….
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Through the River and Over The Falls
Umwenda, the village along the Nile River where Mr. Wasige was born, is unremarkable, which is to say it has as little as most…
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