The Electric Typewriter
Great articles and essays by the world's best journalists and writers.A Tetw reading list
Great journalism about diesease, the medical industry, mental health, nutrition, and how to live more healthily.
by Mark Bowden
Larry Smarr, an astrophysicist turned computer scientist, has a new project: charting his every bodily function in minute detail. What he’s discovering may be the future of health care.
by Atul Gawande
Human birth is an astonishing natural phenomenon. Carol Burnett once told Bill Cosby how he could understand what the experience was like. “Take your bottom lip,” she said, “pull it as far away from your face as you can, and now pull it over your head.
by Mariah Blake
How medical supply behemoths stick it to the little guy, making America’s health care system more dangerous and expensive.
by David Sedaris
Six months after moving to Paris, I gave up on French school and decided to take the easy way out… I started just saying, “D’accord,” which translates to “I am in agreement,” and means, basically, “O.K.” The word was a key to a magic door, and every time I said it I felt the thrill of possibility.
by Scott Carney
How fertility technology has also created a lucrative global trade in human genetic material.
by Elizabeth Kolbert
Men are now on average seventeen pounds heavier than they were in the late seventies, and for women that figure is even higher: nineteen pounds. Why?
by Elizabeth Gumport
For an insomniac, there is no such thing as a good night. Every evening – even if it eventually, mercifully comes to an end – is shredded by anxiety. To reach sleep the insomniac must first pass through terror.
by Brendan I. Koerner
Pharmaceutical companies have come up with a new strategy to market their drugs: First go out and find a new mental illness, then push the pills to cure it.
by Atul Gawande
Experts say they can gauge a person’s age to within five years from the examination of a single tooth - if they have any left to examine.
