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On sport

Long teeth, long strides

Sportsmen are not supposed to get better at the end of their careers, but nobody told Ryan Giggs and Sachin Tendulkar

Mark Twain's autobiography

Unexpurgated musings

He was wise to ensure the ants got to him before any new enemies did

The science of stuttering

Speech therapy

Unravelling the mystery of faltering speech

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam

Less is even more

For years now the museum has been partly closed for rebuilding. William Fiennes likes it better that way—less Gallery Fatigue, more time for Vermeer and Rembrandt

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What we're reading

The mystery of King George VI's stutter
(Slate): "'The King's Speech' raises more questions about stuttering than it answers"

Pip in Calcutta
(Independent): A new production of Dickens's "Great Expectations" is set in 19th-century India

That enigmatic smile
(Guardian): The identity of the "Mona Lisa" is known, yet speculation continues 

Today's quote

“It’s as if you kneel to plant the seed of a tree and it grows so fast that it swallows your whole town before you can even rise to your feet.”

~ Jaron Lanier, computer scientist, on the information age, as quoted in, "How We Know" (New York Review of Books

Highlights
Hip-hop in Uganda

The dance in the night-time

The operatic intensity of streetdancing

Obituary

Maria Altmann

Pursuer of looted family paintings, died on February 7th, aged 94

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