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Shopping and philosophy - Post-modernism is the new black
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How the shape of modern retailing was both predicted and influenced by some unlikely seers
DOMINATED by 22 pillars, the long grey neoclassical 1909 façade of Selfridges, one of London's great department stores, seems anachronistic. The exterior su… more »
The art of conversation
The rules for verbal exchanges are surprisingly enduring
SIR ISAIAH BERLIN, a Latvian-born Oxford philosopher who died in 1997, may well have ranked among the greatest conversationalists who ever lived. According to Robert Darnton, a Princeton hi… more »
Russian airports - Kama Sutra and feral cats
To understand contemporary Russia, consider its airports
WORKING as a journalist in Russia, with its eleven time zones, its endless steppe and perpetual taiga, means spending a lot of time in the air. It involves flying in planes so creaky that la… more »
Planetary science - Pluto fights back
Not everyone is happy with Pluto's demotion
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