Roger Ebert:

Our political immune system has only one antibody, and that is the truth.

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US Commerce Secretary Gary Locke went to Nashville yesterday to address a symposium on intellectual property enforcement, and he threw down the gauntlet: the Obama administration will…

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In 1924, irritated with the undiscerning faddishness of modern art criticism, Los Angeles novelist Paul Jordan Smith “made up my mind that critics would praise anything unintelligible.”

So…

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A few beautiful Pendleton National Park blankets, via Alex Grant.

The Gravel Racer is available again. Operators are standing by. Photo by Chris Milliman

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Kamikaze pilot Masanobu Kuno wrote a farewell letter to his young son and daughter the day before he flew to his death in the Battle of Okinawa. From the translation:

Your father will become a…

In a 31-square-mile area in Brazil that is off limits to logging companies, the sole survivor of an uncontacted tribe lives. All by himself.

Advanced societies invariably have subsumed whatever…

A presentation at the American Chemical Society’s national meeting indicates that bottled teas contain less of the chemicals that give tea its health benefits when compared to…

Privately held Trader Joe’s is highly secretive and doesn’t do interviews, so Fortune did some digging around to see what makes the retail chain such a success.

A ringing bell instead of an…

Let’s get this straight once and for all.

Khaki is a color. It’s the color of desert sand.

Chinos are a type of pants. They’re often khaki colored.

In the US, it’s common to refer to…