No, this is not the x-rated edition of -FUPPETS- For Readers. It is the 30th edition of -FUPPETS- efforts to expand the minds of people willing to take a few minutes to analyze the written word and understand the meaning to be found within those written words. You dig? The written language is the pinnacle of humanity's ability to create, understand, and use symbols to store information outside of our own mortal grey matter. This tool, the written word, is so powerful that even centuries after the speakers of a language have died, humans can go back and with painstaking diligence, reconstruct and translate the ancient words. That is an amazing thing, and is too often overlooked. Without words we are but animals, reacting to stimuli and never stepping outside of our current existence to appreciate the grandeur of the world that exists outside of our own selves.
SIXTY HOURS OF TERROR: A minute by minute first-hand account of the terrorist attacks in Mumbai - ( Jason Motlagh - Virginia Quarterly Review )
STUDYING A LEGEND: Tsiolkovskii, grandfather of Soviet rocketry - ( Taylor Dinerman - The Space Review )
THE EVOLUTION OF THE GOD GENE: In the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico, the archaeologists Joyce Marcus and Kent Flannery have gained a remarkable insight into the origin of religion. - ( Nicholas Wade - The New York Times )
SATCHMO & THE JEWS: Even as a little boy, “could easily see the ungodly treatment White Folks were handing the poor Jewish family I worked for”... - ( Terry Teachout - Commentary Magazine )
NATURE'S REJECTS: The music of the castrati - ( Jan Swafford - Slate )
HOW EINSTEIN DIVIDED AMERICA'S JEWS: - ( Walter Isaacson - The Atlantic )
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