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After years of forced frugality, the novelist Jonathan Ames has been clueless about what to do with his new paycheck as an HBO producer—one purchase, however, has been obvious, getting […]
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Jonathan Ames takes the casual approach to writing, punctuating his time in front of the screen with periods of “messing around,” lying down, coffee drinking, and efforts to feel a […]
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In his long career as a storyteller, Jonathan Ames has learned a thing or two about how to entertain. A few quick tips: don’t memorize your lines, and always be […]
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Sometimes the most valuable thing you can do as a writer is to just “hang out” with what you love. For Jonathan Ames, this meant many long nights in Midtown […]
It was a mystery: how does the chromosome replicate itself precisely during repeated cell divisions without degrading over time? Structures called telomeres (the “caps” on chromosome ends) seemed to provide […]
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Big Think sits down with the author and creator of, “Bored to Death.”
It’s unbelievable, really. The US military is holding up Iraq as a model for Afghanistan. They’ll tell you it took a few years to get right but by golly, Iraq […]
Google and copyright holders’ proposed digital library settlement has outraged its competitors.
A new film about a hopeless ghetto teen is actually fresh and interesting – not just "another brick in the wall for African Americans".
The appearance of an expensive mosque in impoverished and predominantly Catholic Nicaragua has got the rumour mill turning.
A deer was fatally injured after it jumped into the lion’s den at the National Zoo.
The US government is suing a defense contractor for allegedly substituting sophisticated warhead ignition devices for unsafe equivalents.
Some claim the light hearted tone of new film “The Men who Stare at Goats” belies the steely complexity of the real-life figure the central character is based on.
Defense contractor KBR has been accused of exposing 100,000 people, including US troops, to cancerous toxins in Iraq.
A gene thought to be responsible for causing deafness in the elderly has been discovered by scientists – and the discovery could prove cure.
A tongue in cheek look at an alternative universe – "what if Germany hadn’t won the War?"
An agent for a covert secret society has been accused of “torturing” a French aristocratic family for whom he was acting as a guru.
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Marriage counselor David Schnarch thinks every romantic relationship consists of a high desire and low desire partner. And it’s not always the guy who can’t get enough.
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Therapist David Schnarch says that bedroom embers almost always burn out in emotionally committed relationships.
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A conversation with the marital therapist and author of Passionate Marriage and Intimacy and Desire.