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Ryder Hesjedal's glorious Giro d’Italia win as "the single greatest accomplishment by a Canadian athlete in the history of the country." http://walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2012/05/28/the-italian-job/ 8 comments 28/5/2012 bicycling

“On Tipping in Cuba” --- "It’s an economics lesson in the form of a parable, a traveller’s tale about the strange connection between master and servant in this de facto tourist colony. So let’s begin, in fairy-tale fashion, in a tower atop a castle" http://walrusmagazine.com/printerfriendly.php?ref=2012.04-travel-on-tipping-in-cuba 17 comments 3/4/2012 worldnews

A Vietnam-era database made public by Pres. Clinton reveals that the United States dropped far more ordnance on Cambodia than was previously believed: 2,756,941 tons' worth. Just over 10 percent of this bombing was indiscriminate, having "unknown" targets or no target listed at all. http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2006.10-history-bombing-cambodia/ 96 comments 22/3/2012 history

The Intelligence Deficit: what will happen when computers become smarter than people? http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2011.04-books-intelligence-deficit/ 5 comments 14/3/2011 technology

"You get this polarization, even within the SETI community, about the advisability of contact. Should we be keeping a low profile, because chances are they're aggressive, dangerous, and hungry? Or should we be trying to make contact, because chances are they're going to be lovely and very helpful?" http://walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.12-frontier-alien-notion/ 14 comments 15/11/2010 space

Lifelong hockey fan finds himself at hockey games in America's sunbelt (great read) http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2010.06-sports-hockeyland/1/ 3 comments 22/5/2010 hockey

Keeping a place for thought experiments in an empirical age http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.12-frontier-mind-over-matter/ 19 comments 28/11/2009 philosophy

How Google conquered the world, and Apple squandered it (again!) http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/05/26/how-google-unconquered-the-world/ 14 comments 27/5/2009 technology

The Other Porn Addiction: Why are ordinary women exposing themselves online? http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2009.04-society-the-other-porn-addiction-niedsviecki/ 3 comments 16/3/2009 reddit.com

The Mountain That Eats Men: A long, fascinating article about the Bolivian mestizo elite, the mountain that made them rich, and the poor miners trapped between. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/print/2009.01-travel-bolivia-mining-andrew-westoll-jason-rothe/ 2 comments 4/2/2009 worldnews

What if Al Gore really had won? http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.07-fiction-the-eagle-has-landed-jm-kearns/ 4 comments 10/7/2008 politics

"... I served my time I can speak on it. Fuck this War." American soldiers' latrine graffiti in Kuwait and Afghanistan [w/pics] http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.04-ephemera-latrine-graffiti/1/8/ 2 comments 16/4/2008 reddit.com

Apocalypse Soon: The future of reading http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2007.09-e-book-publishing/ 2 comments 10/11/2007 reddit.com

The Conspiracy against Africa. http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/international-affairs-the-conspiracy-against-africa/ 3 comments 10/2/2007 reddit.com