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Maik Grossekathöfer | ChessBase | 15 March 2010
First chess game at 5, beat father at 9, grandmaster at 13, world champion at 19. "Kasparov can calculate more alternatives. My intuition is better". (Translation from Spiegel)
Andrew Corsello | GQ | April 2010
Extravagant profile of Manny Pacquiao, world-champion Filipino boxer: "a cyclone of madness and dysfunction and karaoke and tango dancing and grown men vying to fluff his rice"
Sean Gregory | Time | 10 March 2010
Financial information giant diversifies into sports statistics. First product targets big consumer market of fantasy baseball players. Later, advanced and expensive analytics for major-league clubs
Mark Rowlands | TLS | 3 March 2010
Philosopher applauds "Eating Animals", Foer's latest book, as "brilliant synthesis of argument, science and storytelling ... original and breathtaking in its vivacity"
Kim Severson | NYT | 2 March 2010
Report from rabbit-killing seminar in Brooklyn. Rabbits "the new chicken". Easy for urban farmers to raise, breed. Increased restaurant demand for meat. But you do have to kill them
Deborah Blum | Slate | 29 February 2010
US government ordered industrial alcohol poisoned during prohibition, so it wouldn't be turned into drinkable spirits. Americans went on drinking, perhaps 10,000 died from poison
Grant Achatz | NYT Diner's Journal | 16 February 2010
"I saw cooks using tools as if they were jewelers—wrapping young pine nuts in thin sheets of sliced beet, using syringes to fill recesses in strawberries with Campari"
Virginia Heffernan | NYT | 4 February 2010
Popularity of videos showing figure-skating accidents and injuries suggests macabre anticipation may be subsconscious part of even this sport's appeal
James Kaelan | The Millions | 2 February 2010
Paean to lyrical British soccer commentator, Ray Hudson, who describes his art thus: "Literally, when the lights go on, I just get out there and tap dance my way through it"
Garry Kasparov | NYRB | 21 January 2010
Rise of computer-chess means younger players can train harder, learn faster. But human game becomes more like computer game—calculation crowds out style, theory