If you missed the Egyptian royal family…
A film made by the Egyptian royal family about a coup d’état that was lost for nearly sixty years
What an Omar Suleiman girl group would sound like
Mubarak’s Angel of Darkness would have yelped and wailed just like this
Latest in the battle over the Mohamed Mahmoud mural
The New York Times blog The Lede picks up the battle over street art in Cairo
Tracking how the Egyptian government is doing
Before the revolution, Egypt had no politics. Now it does, and the small things matter
I still don’t understand the Higgs boson
The discovery is the e=mc² of our day: it sounds big but few really understand it
Bruce Lee: Real? Fake? Whatever: I believe
Bruce Lee plays ping pong and lights matches with uncanny accuracy
What that Venus transit thing looked like
It won’t happen again for 105 years but, honestly, it is better on video
Queen Victoria’s journals now online
The Empress of India’s 43,765 pages: a record of Britain at its peak that you can’t access for long
An ex-Googler pokes China in the eye
An insider explains why tech companies can’t win in China and what it costs them to try
A few moments in the life of Hugo Chávez
A Venezuelan revolutionary to some, a dictator to others, but always colorful
A.A. Gill’s magnificent defense of London
Gill — bless him — dispenses with the cheeky cockneys and pearly kings of the imaginary London
Graffiti history written on your sneakers
A new store on Lafayette in New York brings back 1970s graffiti artists for custom work
Rediscovering the joys of web surfing
MapCrunch randomly pulls street scenes from Google Maps. Most of it is ugly, yet irresistible
And the winner of the greasiest palm is…
An anti-bribery website in India actually tries to answer that question
Al Jazeera goes undercover in Syria
Al Jazeera has become the essential media; even US networks that demonize it rely on its video feed
Retna graf going up on the Deitch wall
It’s slow work but the graffiti artist Retna is dancing on the sidewalk along Houston St
Arctic Monkeys still rock
They were young and massively hyped when they started. But there’s no denying they’re great
Caught in the middle of a firefight in Syria
A terrifyingly close view of what it means to fight an irregular war in the middle of a city
Unseen Robert Frank photos at the New York Times
Promoting the New York Times on the eve of Robert Frank’s landmark book, ‘The Americans’
The Atlantic opens our eyes to the American Civil War
The US Capitol building under construction and a country tearing itself apart
Photographer Martin Klimas and the color of sound
Marrying Abstract Expressionism to every heavy metal kid’s discovery that speakers produce air waves