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Issue 34 Testing Summer 2009

Table of Contents

Columns
  • Inventory / From Acne to X-Ray
    Brian Dillon
    Diagnosing Warhol
  • A Minor History Of / Useful Corpses
    Joshua Foer
    Not all bodies molder in the grave
  • Ingestion / The Beast Within
    Natalie de Souza
    The tale of the tapeworm
  • Colors / Magenta
    Sally O'Reilly
    At the leaky margins of reality
Main
  • In Pursuit of Salamone
    James Oles
    In the emptiness of the Argentine Pampas, a vision of modernity
  • Gallery of Shooters
    Joshua Dubler and Andrea Sun-Mee Jones
    The assassin, the non-assassin, and the shape of history
  • The Onomastic Gold Mine
    Allen S. Weiss
    What's in a name?
  • Artist Project / Front
    Trish Morrissey
  • Roll Playing
    Jeff Dolven
    Feeling the machine music of Conlon Nancarrow
  • Hunting a Mathematical Snark
    Margaret Wertheim
    The sublime symmetry of the Monster
  • Cabinet Hoaxed?
    Magazine deceived in its own "Deception" issue?
Testing
  • Games of Chance
    D. Graham Burnett
    Testing at the limits of the normal
  • A Test of Patience
    Mats Bigert
    Waiting on the world's longest-running laboratory experiment
  • Cortex Envy
    Mark Dery
    Bringing up Baby Einstein
  • Drawing Out Your Mind
    Sina Najafi and Christopher Turner
    A sampler of projective psychological tests
  • Measuring Desire
    Tom Waidzunas
    The science of phallometric testing
  • They Rode the Rockets
    Colin Burgess
    Animals in space
  • A Little Etymological Test
    Joshua T. Katz
    Keep your eye on the balls
  • To Catch a Bug
    Michael D. Gordin
    How to test for nuclear tests
  • A Child Could Do It
    Tom Holert
    The art of aesthetic ability testing
  • Epistemological Chicken
    John Downer
    What do we learn from "bird-ingestion" tests?
  • Pencils Up!
    Cabinet puts its subscribers to the test
And
  • Postcard / The Biscuit-Packers' Test
    That's the way the cookie doesn't crumble
  • Bookmark / Post Office Flexibility Test
    Cabinet's rigid standards
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