After having slightly missed the mark with "The End of History", Francis Fukuyama tackles the subject again: "The Future of History".Via Camillo.

Nothing like reading a little Wodehouse when one is in a troubled mood: A short-sighted man whose pince-nez have gone astray at the very moment when vultures are gnawing at his bosom seldom guides his...

I had never worked so hard in my life, nor imagined that writing could be such an effort. It was more difficult than laying asphalt, and at times more frustrating than selling underwear. But it paid...

Beauty is not the goal of competitive sports, but high-level sports are a prime venue for the expression of human beauty. The relation is roughly that of courage to war. The human beauty we’re talking...

Istituzioni cinesi "vogliamo controparti serie e credibili". Panico fra gli imprenditori italiani. via laozi.asia Una specie di Spinoza sulla Cina. Da leggere. (h/t to @ingigi)

Get an accountant, abstain from sex and similes, cut, rewrite, then cut and rewrite again – if all else fails, pray. Inspired by Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing, we asked authors for their personal...

2010 will likely be a time of transition as today’s journalists catch up to learn the multimedia, programming, social media, and business skills they’ll need to tell their stories online. These new...

Ten Gifts to Give Beginning Novelists By popular demand.. 1. A small notebook, so your budding novelist can carry it everywhere and jot down notes, and possibly addresses. Moleskine is...

Solar Impulse, the solar powered aircraft whose developers hope to fly around the world, has been getting out of the hangar recently and getting the juice flowing through its electric motors. The most...

Eric Weiner, a friend, bestselling author of Geography of Bliss and fellow former foreign correspondent lists the options for our breed. This list was originally composed thinking in terms of a 40...

I keep on reading this from time to time, trying to make sure that I stay unto what the money quote says: learning how to think really means learning how to exercise some control over how and what you...

I finally managed to upload a scan of my story for the New York Times / International Herald Tribune, from last June - in color, no less! Here it is, in its full glory: http://www.scribd.com/doc/19473281...