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...Reverse,” the album’s bluntest approach to its running themes of heartbreak and self-doubt. As its initially clunky piano riff gives way to harsh outbursts of bass and guitar, “Written in Reverse” emerges as a pummeling, persistent beast, closing out the otherwise tightly-wound A-side with well-earned fury...
Writing about the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan on the Daily Beast...
Revealing the hidden feminism of MTV's widely criticized reality show Jersey Shore on the Daily Beast...
...reporters keen to test the gullibility of their readers. The experiment succeeded beyond their wildest expectations. From the moment they ran they story, the papers were inundated with reports of sightings from readers, and the Sub became its own living myth. Cape Town newspapers ran stories about the apocryphal beast well into the late 1980s. Since poor Mr. Skinner's death, the papers and police have been swamped with calls - all false - about body parts washing up on the beach. The point is this: a shark attack teaches us something about the nature of sharks, or at least the nature...
...perform mathematical calculations rapidly and infallibly. This was long before the age of electrical circuitry, so Babbage's plan called for the machine to be executed in brass and steel and powered by a hand crank. If it had been completed, his Difference Engine would have been a magnificent beast, requiring 25,000 parts and weighing about 15 tons. But he ran out of money and patience and had to abandon it unfinished...