Author: Heather Horn

Media Diet

Vanessa Grigoriadis: What I Read

A conversation with New YorkRolling Stone, and Vanity Fair contributing editor Vanessa Grigoriadis about how she consumes information.

By Heather Horn

Oct 6, 2010

By Heather Horn

Oct 5, 2010

By Heather Horn

Oct 5, 2010

Winner of Joke Nobel Wins Real Physics Nobel Prize

The man who levitated a frog is now producing a super-material using Scotch tape

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By Heather Horn

Oct 5, 2010

Rogue French Trader Fined More Than He Could Ever Pay

Massive gambler and folk hero gets three years

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By Heather Horn

Oct 4, 2010

Contemplating the Supreme Court's Push to the Right

Liberals look ahead as the Roberts court begins new term

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By Heather Horn

Oct 4, 2010

Debating Harvard's Role in the Founding of Facebook

Do artistocrats still dominate the social scene?

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By Heather Horn

Oct 4, 2010

Dutch Politician to Be Tried for Anti-Islam Hate Speech

Geert Wilders sparks international debate

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By Heather Horn

Oct 1, 2010

U.S. Infected Guatemalans With Syphilis

Case disgusts media and the international community

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By Heather Horn

Oct 1, 2010

TARP Won't Cost Much, but Taxpayers Still Hate It

Examining the "disconnect" between the popular narrative, and the bailout's success

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By Heather Horn

Oct 1, 2010

Ireland on the Brink

Europe's "model pupil" is flailing as the cost of bailing out banks rises

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By Heather Horn

Sep 30, 2010

White House Resorts to White Board to Explain Tax Cuts

Austan Goolsbee breaks out the smelly markers

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By Heather Horn

Sep 30, 2010

Some Doubt as to Whether GOP Will Sweep U.S. Like Mongol Conquerors

Michael Barone sees the GOP taking over "the vast interior"

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By Heather Horn

Sep 30, 2010

Cycling Champion Fails Drug Test, Claims 'Food Contamination'

Alberto Contador tested positive--for a drug normally taken for asthma

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By Heather Horn

Sep 30, 2010

New Planet: A Breakthrough in the Search for Life?

Say hello to our Earth-like cousin, the poetically-named Gliese 581g

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By Heather Horn

Sep 29, 2010

Quote of the Day: Susan Orlean Explains How Gardening Is Like Math

The New Yorker writer loves autumnal pruning

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By Heather Horn

Sep 29, 2010

Kids Say They Want Digital Books, Also Candy, Firetrucks

Children would read more—if only they had those nifty gadgets

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By Heather Horn

Sep 29, 2010

Boys Do Badly in School: Is Single-Sex Education the Solution?

A BBC documentary plunges Britain into debate

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By Heather Horn

Sep 29, 2010

Theories on the Religious Expertise of Atheists

Why do non-believers seem to know more about religion than the faithful?

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By Heather Horn

Sep 28, 2010

How Southwest-AirTran Merger Will Change Air Travel

Is it good for customers? Keep your fingers crossed?

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By Heather Horn

Sep 28, 2010

Why Do Atheists Know More About Religion?

A Pew poll shows that non-believers have a decent grasp of dogma

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By Heather Horn

Sep 27, 2010

Zero-Carbon City of Masdar: A Model for the Future?

If the future also has jetpacks, perhaps

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By Heather Horn

Sep 27, 2010

Profiles in Paul Krugman: Writer, Economist, Shrimp-Eater

A Washington Post examination gets down to culinary details

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By Heather Horn

Sep 27, 2010

North Korea Faces Historic Change This Week

Kim Jong-Il is expected to anoint a successor

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By Erik Hayden and Heather Horn

Sep 27, 2010

5 Best Monday Columns

On the false "triumph" of the Tea Parties, the consumption myth, and what the future will condemn us for

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By Heather Horn

Sep 24, 2010

Are the Tables Tilted Against Women on Wall Street?

A discrimination suit against Goldman Sachs draws responses from former employees

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By Heather Horn

Sep 23, 2010

By Heather Horn

Sep 23, 2010

Debating the Government's Role in Higher Education

New regulation of for-profit colleges stirs debate over the value of college degrees

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By Heather Horn

Sep 23, 2010

India's Embarrassing Commonwealth Games

Athletes and critics object to unkempt conditions

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By Heather Horn

Sep 23, 2010

How Likely Is California to Legalize Pot?

Proposition 19 is favored in the poll, but levels of support have slipped

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By Heather Horn

Sep 23, 2010

Cheers Greet Zuckerberg's $100 Million Gift to Newark Schools

Bloggers preemptively defend against cynicism

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By Heather Horn

Sep 22, 2010

Mapping the Segregation of U.S. Cities

How divided is your hometown?

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