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15 Great Articles by Matt Taibbi

Wed, 27 Mar 2013 09:24:25 -0400

15 Great Articles by Matt Taibbi:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

Ever wonder where all the money went?? Matt Taibbi knows…

10 Great Articles about Death

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:19:50 -0400

10 Great Articles about Death:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

The best writing about death and the effect it has on our lives.

The Best of Michael Lewis

Wed, 20 Mar 2013 08:16:10 -0400

The Best of Michael Lewis:

tetw:

20 great articles, all free to read online

A huge collection of amazing articles by one of the world’s best journalists, and a brilliant teller of true stories.

David Foster Wallace

Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:56:00 -0500

David Foster Wallace:

tetw:

The Complete Essays

The ultimate David Foster Wallace nonfiction collection, including links to every essay available online.

3 Great Essays about Writing

Sat, 24 Nov 2012 02:58:41 -0500

3 Great Essays about Writing:

tetw:

by David Foster Wallace

The Nature of the Fun - “A book-in-progress is a kind of hideously damaged infant that follows the writer around wanting love, wanting the very thing its hideousness guarantees it’ll get: the writer’s complete attention. (HT @brainpicker)

Fictional Futures and the Conspicuously Young - “The honeymoon’s end between the literary Establishment and the contemporary young writer was an inevitable and foreseeable consequence of the same shameless hype that led to many journeyman writers’ premature elevation in the first place…”

E unibus pluram: television and U.S. fiction - “Fiction writers as a species tend to be oglers. They tend to lurk and to stare. The minute fiction writers stop moving, they start lurking, and stare. They are born watchers.”

For our complete collection of over 20 oustanding essays by the late great David Foster Wallace, click here.

Women on War

Thu, 08 Nov 2012 08:36:01 -0500

Women on War:

tetw:

A Political Notebook reading list

A few weeks ago, we posted a list of great articles about war. Here’s what The Political Notebook had to say about it:

While TETW’s list includes some great articles, they were all written by men. Not only have women written about war, but they’ve done it well — here are some possible additions to the list by women:

The Predator War by Jane Mayer.

Crossfire in Kandahar by Vanessa M. Gezari.

Bystanders to Genocide by Samantha Power.

Girls at War by Elizabeth Rubin.

The Invisible Army by Sarah Stillman.

What I Lost in Libya by Clare Morgana Gillis.

The Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, Wellbutrin, Celexa, Effexor, Valium, Klonopin, Ativan, Restoril, Xanax, Adderall, Ritalin, Haldol, Risperdal, Seroquel, Ambien, Lunesta, Elavil, Trazodone War by Jennifer Senior.

I Can Find an Indicted War Criminal. So Why Isn’t He in the Hague? by Mac McClelland

A Chance in Hell (4 pt series) by Corinne Reilly

Tuesdays with Saddam by Lisa Depaulo.

Adrift but Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand.

High Explosive for Everyone by Martha Gellhorn.

Massive thanks to The Political Notebook for taking the time to address just one of our many shortcomings. If anybody else has a bone to pick, we’d love to hear from you.

That Math Blog: bullmittartist: Retired NSA Analyst Believes He Has Proved That The...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 07:24:35 -0400

That Math Blog: bullmittartist: Retired NSA Analyst Believes He Has Proved That The...:

bullmittartist:

Retired NSA Analyst Believes He Has Proved That The GOP Is Stealing Elections | UK Progressive

sarahlee310:

A retired NSA analyst has spent several sleepless nights applying a simple formula to past election results across Arizona. His results showed…

Americana and British English, French and German are trivial groups!

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:51:25 -0400

Americana and British English, French and German are trivial groups!:

thatmathblog:

Extremely interesting!

ghostboy87: The Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness...

Sun, 28 Oct 2012 02:42:07 -0400

ghostboy87:

The Mighty Marvel Comics Strength and Fitness Book

maxistentialist: ThinkProgress misattributed my “Cavalrymen for...

Thu, 25 Oct 2012 06:24:17 -0400

maxistentialist:

ThinkProgress misattributed my “Cavalrymen for Romney” site to the Obama Campaign, and now there’s a lot of conspiracy theorists on Twitter including Garance Franke-Ruta, a senior editor at The Atlantic, who think the site suggests that Obama planned that line.

For the record, this site had nothing to do with the Obama campaign. I voluntarily linked it to the President’s website, because that’s a good resource for learning about his policies.

I definitely made the site quickly, but I didn’t have any advance knowledge of what would happen in the debate. When I heard Obama’s line about horses and bayonets, I thought about how funny those things would be as special interests (big horse), and that gave me the idea for the site. Once I had the idea, it only took me about ten minutes to launch it, and it was online well before the debate was over.

Here’s how I did it:

I grabbed the first big Google Image search result for “cavalry” that was on a white background

I copy/pasted the Romney logo onto his pike and mocked up the “learn more” button

I exported my images and coded the site by hand in HTML and CSS… my TextExpander snippets let me assemble a site like that very, very quickly

To eliminate domain name propagation time, I purchased the domain from my registrar (Gandi.net) and set it to redirect with a mask to a subdomain on my site

War

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:51:08 -0400

War:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

M by John Sack - A stark portrayal of a company of young soldiers preparing for war in Vietnam and what they found when they arrived.

The Killer Elite by Evan Wright - A reporter rides along with the Marines on the front line in Iraq. The original Rolling Stone articles that form the basis of the best-selling Generation Kill.

The Vietnam Syndrome by Christopher Hitchens - A powerful expose of the ongoing nightmare caused by Agent Orange.

What We’ve Learned, If Anything by Tony Judt - A great historical essayist looks back over a century of conflict to ask what lessons the past has taught us.

The Coldest War by Kevin Fedarko - If you need convincing of the futility of war, look no further. A great writer treks high into the Himalayas to report on the world’s most pointless conflict.

A History of Violence by Steven Pinker - A we living in the most peaceful period in history?

The Rip-Off in Iraq by Matt Taibbi - How the Bush administration used the Iraq war to (literally) hand over palettes of cash to its corporate sponsors.

Blackhawk Down by Mark Bowden - A classic series of articles about the catastrophic US attack in Mogadishu that gave rise to the film of the same name.

The Man Who Sold the War by James Bamford - An in-depth investigation into the web of misinformation that was used to justify the war in Iraq.

The Last Ace by Mark Bowden - Ride along with the last of a dying breed, the air-to-air-combat fighter pilot.

A Farewell to Arms by John Carlin - A fascinating look at how the conflicts of the future could be played out in cyberspace.

Paintballing With Hezbollah by Mitchell Prothero - A group of journailsts takes on fighters from the Middle East’s most feared guerilla army in hand-to-hand combat.

North Korea

Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:50:53 -0400

North Korea:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

How One Man Escaped from a North Korean Prison Camp by Blaine Harden - There was torture, starvation, betrayals and executions, but to Shin In Geun, Camp 14 – a prison for the political enemies of North Korea – was home. Then one day came the chance to flee…

The Flight Of the Fluttering Swallows By Michael Paterniti - Conditions in North Korea had deteriorated to the point of desperation. Whatever lay ahead now, could it be worse than starving or living as a parentless child in constant fear?

Nothing Left by Barbara Demick - Is North Korea finally facing collapse?

North Korea’s Digital Underground by Robert S. Boynton - To smuggle facts into or out of North Korea is to risk imprisonment and even execution. Yet today, aided by a half-dozen stealthy media organizations outside the country, citizen-journalists are using technologies new and old to break the regime’s iron grip on information.

North Korea’s Dollar Store by David Rose - Office 39, North Korea’s billion-dollar crime syndicate, pays for Kim Jong Il’s missiles and cognac. Why did the Bush White House choose not to shut it down?

Alone In the Dark by Philip Gourevitch - How Kim Jong is playing South Korea and the U.S.

North Korea: The War Game by Scott Stossel - Dealing with North Korea could make Iraq look like child’s play — and the longer we wait, the harder it will get. That’s the message of a pentagon-style war game involving some of this country’s most prominent foreign-policy strategists.

When North Korea Falls by Robert D. Kaplan - North Korea’s catastrophic collapse could determine the balance of power in Asia for decades.

Photo

Sun, 21 Oct 2012 01:01:54 -0400

150 Essential Articles and Essays

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:51:39 -0400

150 Essential Articles and Essays:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

A huge collection of the very best magazine length non-fiction.
Includes stacks of classics from DFW, JJS, HST, Joan Didion, Malcolm Gladwell, Susan Orlean, Tom Woolfe, David Sedaris, Walter Kirn, Chuck Klosterman, Michael Lewis and many others.

150 Amazing Science & Tech Reads

Thu, 20 Sep 2012 05:48:38 -0400

150 Amazing Science & Tech Reads:

tetw:

A Tetw reading list

A huge collection of the very best science and technology writing 150 oustanding articles from the world’s best journalists and writers covering everything from environmental science, computing and the internet to psychology, brain science and life hacking.

explore-blog: The history of LEGO, in a short animated film to...

Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:52:45 -0400

explore-blog:

The history of LEGO, in a short animated film to celebrate the beloved toy’s 80th anniversary. Also see The Cult of LEGO.

explore-blog: “What is art but a way of seeing?” Saul Bellow...

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 20:22:49 -0400

explore-blog:

“What is art but a way of seeing?” Saul Bellow adds to these famous definitions of art, beautifully hand-lettered by artist Lisa Congdon. (Previously.)

explore-blog: After the history of western music in 16...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 21:38:00 -0400

explore-blog:

After the history of western music in 16 styles, the history of 20th-century music in whistling, and the history of wooing women in music, cdza bring us Human Jukebox – “a fun and democratic way for street musicians to get money.” Brilliant.

jtotheizzoe: The Scientific Power of Music...

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:04:36 -0400

jtotheizzoe:

The Scientific Power of Music

AsapSCIENCE analyzes music as humanity’s drug of choice. Listening to music can cause the release of the neurotransmitter dopamine, in the same pleasure or reward circuits that cause cocaine addiction.

Do melodies, harmonies and rhythms tap into the same kind of brain reward systems that drive our desires for food, sex and other basic behaviors? What do you think the evolutionary basis behind it could be? Does it predate humans being social or is this a just a random byproduct of our brain wiring?

think-progress: Terrifying HT Huffington Post

Wed, 08 Aug 2012 09:40:32 -0400

think-progress:

Terrifying

HT Huffington Post