Rebecca Greenfield

Rebecca Greenfield is a staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.

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Sorry, Settlers of Catan Is Not the New Monopoly

Sorry, Settlers of Catan Is Not the New Monopoly

Everyone from The Wall Street Journal to The Atlantic is claiming the game is about to hit the big time. But will it ever really arrive? More »

Video of the Day: Woman Covers Her Arm With Facebook Tattoos

Video of the Day: Woman Covers Her Arm With Facebook Tattoos

To create something permanent out of the quickly changing world of the Web, one Danish woman inked her favorite friends on her arm More »

Typography Insight: iPad App Teaches Fonts Like Never Before

Typography Insight: iPad App Teaches Fonts Like Never Before

Learning the subtleties of Helvetica and Garamond used to be a pain—but a sleek new app has made the process easier More »

Playful, Subversive Covers Give Nabokov's Books New Life

Playful, Subversive Covers Give Nabokov's Books New Life

Selling books is hard, even for Nabokov—so Penguin has brought beauty and mischief to the jackets of his classics More »

7 Wonders of Antarctica: Journey to the World's Remotest Places

7 Wonders of Antarctica: Journey to the World's Remotest Places

A guide to volcanic isles, Shackleton's old base camp, a polar post office, and a bustling Antarctic metropolis More »

'Modern Family' Finale: The Joy of Inside Jokes

'Modern Family' Finale: The Joy of Inside Jokes

As the series wraps up its second season, it rewards regular viewers by referring back to episodes from last year More »

Is the World Getting Healthier? 10 Highlights From a New WHO Report

Is the World Getting Healthier? 10 Highlights From a New WHO Report

Our overview of good news and bad news from the World Health Organization's annual World Health Statistics round-up More »

Celebrity Invention: Fabio's Slim-Fit Fat Burning Water

Celebrity Invention: Fabio's Slim-Fit Fat Burning Water

The famous model and ubiquitous romance novel cover hunk tried to patent his hotness in a bottle More »

'Modern Family': How to Give a Middle School Graduation Speech

'Modern Family': How to Give a Middle School Graduation Speech

"Smart" girl Alex gets a lesson from her not-so-dumb-after-all sister, Haley More »

Meet the Blingriches: Newt and Callista's $250K Tiffany Tab

Meet the Blingriches: Newt and Callista's $250K Tiffany Tab

Newt and Callista Gingrich may not be the fanciest couple in Washington, but they sure knew how to rack up the bills More »

Designing a 19th-Century Kindle: An E-Reader for Dickens

Designing a 19th-Century Kindle: An E-Reader for Dickens

How to explain Internet-era reading to someone from the analog past? Put lots of little books in a much bigger book. More »

Picture of the Day: Quentin Roosevelt's Playpal

Picture of the Day: Quentin Roosevelt's Playpal

Spending his childhood in the White House, President Theodore Roosevelt's youngest still managed to have some fun More »

Celebrity Invention: Bing Crosby's Window Sash Holder

Celebrity Invention: Bing Crosby's Window Sash Holder

We've all struggled with blinds, but when crooner Bing Crosby couldn't take it anymore, he invented a holder for window sashes More »

Ronald Reagan's Letter to the Library, and Other Finds From 1971

Ronald Reagan's Letter to the Library, and Other Finds From 1971

The city of Troy, Michigan, unearths a cache of letters from the political and intellectual stars of more than 40 years ago More »

'Modern Family' and the Joy of Physical Comedy

'Modern Family' and the Joy of Physical Comedy

The show usually kills with its quips one-liners, but this week it focused on making its audience laugh with actions rather than words More »

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'Hidden Alcatraz': The Past Lives of Our Most Infamous Prison

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Celebrity Invention: Ralph Lauren's Bed

Celebrity Invention: Ralph Lauren's Bed

Beyond clothing, the man once known as Ralph Lifshitz also designs, bedding, towels, cologne and, apparently, furniture More »

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