Why? Because he wrote a very similar piece a while back. You can read it here: The Toiletization of the West Both Shane Bauer’s and today’s piece by Daniel Lametti in Slate share many of the same ideas: the Sikirov research, the first-world/third-world toilet divide, the physiological contortions spurred by modern toiletry, and of course [...]
I suspect not. Lynn Hirschberg’s final celebrity profile for the NYT Magazine knocks the musician M.I.A. down a notch or two on the credibility scale. M.I.A., aka Maya Arulpragasam, comes across as possibly well-meaning, but also self-righteous and misguided. (And reminds us of how much we love the term “radical chic.”) Hirschberg includes little observations [...]
When trains cross certain borders—entering China from Mongolia on the Trans-Siberian Railway, for example—they have to stop and change wheels. The wheel assemblies, called trucks or bogies, used on trains in Mongolia (and Belarus and Kazakhstan and pretty much all of the old Russian Empire) won’t work in China. These two countries have different rail [...]
Last week, with June 4 marking the 20th anniversary of the crackdown on the student protests in Tiananmen Square, Chinese officials blocked filming around Tiananmen by physically blocking shots. Below, the experience of BBC’s Beijing correspondent. Umbrellas are one of the things I remember from Korea, Japan and China. As a boy, I think I [...]
Selected Reporting Wired Magazine Pop-Pop-Pop Culture. November 2010. From movies to videogames to product design, the AK-47 has taken plenty of star turns in pop culture. [Part of C.J. Chivers's AK-47 package.] Intelligence, Redesigned. November 2009. The textbooks written by Roy A. Gallant taught a generation of students that science could also be art. But [...]
Not the primary. Chris Matthews on why San Francisco isn’t a newspaper town: “It looks like an Eastern city,” he says. “But it’s pretty hard for people to read newspapers when they’re riding a bike.” From last Sunday’s Times Magazine profile of Matthews. One of the funnier pieces of reporting I’ve read in any magazine. [...]
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