Thursday, July 18, 2013

From Silicon Valley Ice Cream to the Spacetime Debate; plus the search for The Pinball Wizard of Paris

Newsweek, Better World, 17 July 2013
Frank Snepp on Lessons Unlearned from Vietnam; the secret of hi-tech ice cream; safely sifting precious metals from circuit boards; brain scans for criminals; and a debate over the spacetime continuum.

The Daily Beast, Searching for the Pinball Wizard of Paris, 13 July 2013
Not so long ago, pinball machines were as much a fixture in French cafés as coffee and Calvados. But today it's the Americans in Paris who seem to cherish them most, reports Solène Cressant, with a contribution by Christopher Dickey


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