Gaming the SAT Essay
As a writer, I applaud the new essay section of the SAT, but Karin Klein got up close and personal with it by passing the test to score the essays. She discovered some interesting things about taking—and scoring—the SATs.
Gary Giddons on Motion Picture Masterpieces
You've got to love an essay that begins, "It is a universally acknowledged truth that a movie studio in possession of a good fortune must be in want of Great Books."
Gecko Gloves
Having wormed my way up miles of static rope with Gibbs and Petzl Frog ascenders, my biggest desire is to do away with the rope itself. I wants me a set of Gecko gloves and booties!
Geek Heaven!
Huge database of animated .GIFs that demonstrate mathematic concepts. Need to explain the Conchoid of Nicomedes? Poincaré Hyperbolic Disks? Semicubical Parabola Involutes? Sweat no more—just point and click.
Geetars and Ook-uh-laylees
Okay article, but it has a fabulous photograph of Ronnie Wood accompanying his grandmother.
Gene Turns Off Fear in Mice
Just what we need: braver mice.
Generation Xerox
Kurt Andersen says that it's probably too late for Kaavya Viswanathan to claim "the similarities were part of a deliberate postmodern intertextual take on 'real' genre novels." Umm hmmm.
George Cardas' Favorite Number
Phi is sexy.
George Trow on Ahmet Ertegun
This is one of the best profiles ever run in The New Yorker—and one of the longest. It's worth it.
Get Medieval
Timewise, that is.