News That Stays News

Shooting an Elephant April 1, 2011

1. George Orwell’s classic 1936 essay, an account from his days as a colonial police officer in Burma.

2. More than 90% of the cells in your body are actually foreign microbes that have made an ecosystem out of you. Carl Zimmer explains human ecology over at his blog, the Loom.

//Random piece of self-promotion- I once reviewed Zimmer’s book Soul Made Flesh for the Yale Scientific, a review that, sadly, only survives on the internet on my dad’s blog about college admissions.

3. An appreciation over at the WSJ of Stanley Kubrick’s 1957 film, Paths of Glory. Link contains spoilers.

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