Adsense "clickbombs" everywhere and completely unreadable.
This is 'content farm' quality at best, which is a shame because it seems an interesting article.
I know internet publishing is a tough business, but we all know there's a problem here.
An ideal layout would be all one page, it would have the text nicely under or around the images. Even if the ad in the top and side bars was still there at least they wouldn't seem like the most prominent thing on the page.
The NYTimes does all this quiet well, they page but at least their pages are quiet long. They may even have the same amount of ads on the page but the content is so much more dense that it doesn't feel spammy.
I think the "all one page" idea is a good one, and I'll talk to the right folks about it. My only concern is that such a media-heavy page is going to be pretty rough in terms of page speed.
Notice how many points the posts summarizing the article received - NOBODY to whom you actually want to advertise has any desire to sit around clicking through a gallery to read text.
Check out the design books: The Design of Every Day things Designing the Obvious Information Dashboard Design
for a primer on UI design.