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That episode led to Carlsen admitting that he was in a “deep funk”, while this week’s self-diagnosis was “a sorrily disgusting performance”. There had been no hint of what was to come in the best of three games first set on Tuesday, which Carlsen won 2.5-0.5 in commanding style, or earlier when Carlsen’s clever white tactic eliminated his old rival Hikaru Nakamura from the tournament in this week’s puzzle diagram. Even at the start of the event, Carlsen articulated an underlying w...

by Eric Felten Print this article Encyclopaedia Britannica, Webster’s Encyclopedic Dictionary, and Cram’s Popular Atlas of the World were having trouble keeping up. It was the war, you see. Cram’s atlas (was there ever a less mellifluous brand name?) is new to my shelves, a manifestation of my mania for books that attempt to organize all that was known about the world at a given moment. But in 1941, the facts to be known about the world were alarmingly fluid. Cra...

Famous amos cookies and, again, im sure the professor, of the great university, a and m i doubt they removed thomas edison in their teaching and replace them with famous amos cookies -- >> and edison is out and neil armstrong and christopher columbus are back in, can you explain the logic, professor. >> i cant explain that logic, exactly. i do know that one of our external reviewers wanted to remove thurgood marshall, from the text, because he wasnt very important in u.s. history. and that didnt...