Editor’s Note: We’ll be running the article recommendations of our friends at TNR Reader each afternoon on The Plank, just in time to print out or save for your commute home. Enjoy!
Collision course: How a Texan physicist almost discovered the God Particle.
Dallas Observer | 18 min (4,544 words)
Austerity measures have fed the fire of xenophobic extremism in Greece. Is fascism on the rise?
Boston Review | 3 min (837 words)
There’s something decidedly squirmy about the first realization that your art has become your livelihood.
The Believer | 18 min (4,434 words)
The rise of the nebbish: from Woody Allen to George Costanza to Paul Giamatti
National Post | 4 min (1,039 words)