Mental Floss Editors: Our Top Longreads of 2011
The editors of mental_floss magazine: Mangesh Hattikudur, Ethan Trex, Stephanie Meyers, and Jessanne Collins.
mental_floss 杂志的编辑：Mangesh Hattikudur、Ethan Trex、Stephanie Meyers 和 Jessanne Collins。
They’re also on Twitter and Tumblr.
他们也在 Twitter 和 Tumblr 上。
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“Deep Intellect,” Sy Montgomery (Orion Magazine)
“深刻的智慧”，西·蒙哥马利（猎户座杂志）
Is it weird to say we enjoyed this trek “inside the mind of an octopus” because it was so sensual?
说我们喜欢这次“在章鱼头脑中”的长途跋涉是不是很奇怪，因为它是如此感性？
Who knew the octopus can taste with all of its skin, run amok out of water like a spooked cat, and solve puzzles?
谁知道章鱼可以用它的整个皮肤来品尝，像受惊的猫一样在水中狂奔，并解决难题？
Montgomery’s exploration into the psyche of the spooky-smart mollusk and the researchers who study them is surprisingly …
蒙哥马利对这种幽灵般聪明的软体动物以及研究它们的研究人员的心理探索令人惊讶......
touching.
感人。
“Doubling in the Middle,” Gregory Kornbluh (The Believer)
“在中间加倍”，格雷戈里·科恩布鲁（Gregory Kornbluh）（信徒）
The reversible prose talents of “master palindromist” Barry Duncan are something of a very, very local legend in Cambridge, Mass.
“回文大师”巴里·邓肯（Barry Duncan）的可逆散文天赋在马萨诸塞州剑桥市是一个非常非常当地的传奇人物。
This long overdue profile introduces his technique to the rest of us, on the occasion of the completion of an epic 400-word palindrome earlier this year.
这篇姗姗来迟的简介在今年早些时候完成了一篇史诗般的 400 字回文，向我们其他人介绍了他的技术。
“How to Mend a Broken Heart,” Shannon Service (Brink Magazine)
“如何修补破碎的心”，Shannon Service（Brink 杂志）
A broken heart can literally kill you (the diagnosis is “myocardial stunning due to exaggerated sympathetic stimulation”), and heartbreak can be harder to get over than a heroin habit.
一颗破碎的心实际上可以杀死你（诊断是“由于过度的交感神经刺激而导致心肌顿抑”），而心碎可能比吸食海洛因更难克服。
This candid essay weaves together a look at the latest in the science of lost love with a trip inside the Croatia’s brand-new Museum of Broken Hearts.
这篇坦率的文章将失恋科学的最新进展与克罗地亚全新的破碎之心博物馆的参观结合在一起。
“Cracking the Scratch Lottery Code,” Jonah Lehrer (Wired)
“破解刮刮乐彩票密码”，乔纳·莱勒（Jonah Lehrer）（连线）
We’ve been downright willy-nilly in our scratch-off lottery ticket technique all these years, which is the only possible explanation for why we’re still not millionaires.
这些年来，我们一直在不情愿地使用刮刮彩票技术，这是我们仍然不是百万富翁的唯一可能的解释。
Jonah Lehrer introduces us to the Canadian geological statistician who unearthed the mathematical algorithm buried under that gummy silver stuff.
乔纳·莱勒 (Jonah Lehrer) 向我们介绍了一位加拿大地质统计学家，他发现了埋在银胶下面的数学算法。
“Teacher, Leave Those Kids Alone,” Amanda Ripley (Time)
“老师，别打扰那些孩子”，阿曼达·里普利（《时代》杂志）
Private after-hours tutoring is so rampant in South Korea the government has had to enact a curfew to curtail it.
私人课外补习在韩国非常猖獗，政府不得不实施宵禁来限制这种现象。
It’s like an action movie where police are trying to break up kids’ late night study groups!
这就像一部动作片，警察试图驱散孩子们的深夜学习小组！
“Inside the Russian Short Wave Radio Enigma,” Peter Savodnik (Wired)
“俄罗斯短波无线电之谜的内部”，彼得·萨沃德尼克（Peter Savodnik）（连线）
Since sometime in the early ’80s, a mysterious shortwave radio station, UVB-76, based north of Moscow, transmitted beeps and buzzes around the clock.
自 80 年代初以来，位于莫斯科北部的神秘短波广播电台 UVB-76 全天候传输蜂鸣声和嗡嗡声。
In 2010, it began to act strangely—first stopping entirely, then broadcasting random series of numbers and other, stranger noises…
2010 年，它开始表现得很奇怪——首先完全停止，然后随机广播一系列数字和其他奇怪的噪音……
“Broken Kingdom,” Adam Gopnik (The New Yorker)
《破碎的王国》，亚当·高普尼克（《纽约客》）
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of The Phantom Tollbooth, Adam Gopnik talks to the two creators about synesthesia, the GI Bill, radio, and why everyone thought the book would end up on the remainder table.
在《幽灵收费站》出版 50 周年之际，亚当·戈普尼克与两位创作者谈论了联觉、《退伍军人权利法案》、广播，以及为什么每个人都认为这本书最终会出现在剩余的桌子上。
“The Greatest Paper that Ever Died,” Alex French and Howie Kahn (Grantland)
“有史以来最伟大的论文”，Alex French 和 Howie Kahn（Grantland）
French and Kahn’s riveting oral history of short-lived sports daily The National’s epic collapse has a little bit of everything for sports-media junkies, including quotes from greats like Frank Deford and Charles P.
弗伦奇和卡恩引人入胜的口述历史，讲述了短暂的体育日报《国家报》的史诗般的崩溃，这对体育媒体迷来说包含了一些内容，其中包括弗兰克·德福德和查尔斯·P·卡恩等伟人的名言。
Pierce and, of course, a $52,000 brass eagle.
皮尔斯，当然还有一只价值 52,000 美元的黄铜鹰。
“The Joy Lock Club,” Pagan Kennedy (Boston Magazine)
“Joy Lock Club”，帕甘·肯尼迪（波士顿杂志）
Getting to know Schuyler Towne, renowned recreational lock-picker (recreational lock-picking is a thing!) and publisher of the magazine NDE (Non-Destructive Entry) aka “the Us Weekly of hardware security.”
了解 Schuyler Towne，他是著名的休闲开锁者（休闲开锁是一回事！），也是《NDE》（非破坏性进入）杂志（又名“美国硬件安全周刊”）的出版商。
“Death in the Pot,” Deborah Blum (Lapham’s Quarterly)
《锅中之死》黛博拉·布鲁姆（Deborah Blum）（《拉帕姆季刊》）
Any article tagged “cooking, food, government, medicine, poison, war” is auto-must-read in our book.
任何标记为“烹饪、食品、政府、药物、毒药、战争”的文章都是我们书中的自动必读。
An overview of food adulteration through history, from the Greek army’s “mad-honey poisoning” of 401 BC to today.
历史上食品掺假的概述，从公元前 401 年希腊军队的“疯狂蜂蜜中毒”一直到今天。
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Share your own Top 5 Longreads of 2011, all through December.
整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
Just tag it #longreads on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook.
只需在 Twitter、Tumblr 或 Facebook 上标记#longreads 即可。