After Years of Being Out, the Necktie Is In - New York Times
(tags: ties clothing attire fashion)
Popular Science: Kitchen Gadgets Bonanza - Photo Gallery
(tags: food moleculargastronomy technology cooking)
Does Exercise Really Make Us Thinner? — New York Magazine
As the Finns themselves concluded, with characteristic understatement, the relationship between exercise and weight is “more complex” than they [...]
the “blog” of “unnecessary” quotation marks
(tags: awesome language punctuation)
Reason Magazine - CSI: Mississippi
That understates what’s needed: a comprehensive review of every case in which Hayne has ever testified, the sort of review that has been conducted following other forensic expert scandals across the country.
(tags: corruption crime justice)
Reason Magazine - The Secrets of Intangible Wealth
According to their regression analyses, for example, the rule of [...]
Appendix may be useful after all - More Health News - MSNBC.com
Some scientists think they have figured out the real job of the troublesome and seemingly useless appendix: It produces and protects good germs for your gut.
(tags: science appendix biology)
Rain, End to Unseasonal Heat Seen Coming - washingtonpost.com
the neck needs to be washed at least [...]
Secret U.S. Endorsement of Severe Interrogations - New York Times
“We couldn’t tell them, ‘Do the best you can,’ because the people who did the best they could in Peru were looking at a grand jury.”
(tags: nationalsecurity terrorism waronterror olc doj)
An eater’s field guide to pretzels. - By Sara Dickerman - Slate Magazine
pretzels are a perfectly [...]
Late Night Eats in DC - Gridskipper, the Urban Travel Guide
(tags: dining restaurants)
Dirt Cheap Eats 2007 (washingtonian.com)
(tags: dc restaurants dining)
Gary Voth Photography: The Forgotten Lens
Many of the world’s most evocative and best known images were made under natural light with fast lenses and film. Creating such images is nearly impossible with “slow” zoom lenses, which [...]
What Really Buys Happiness? by Arthur C. Brooks, City Journal Summer 2007
To focus our policies on inequality, instead of opportunity, is to make a grave error—one that will worsen the very problem we seek to solve and make us generally unhappier to boot.
(tags: inequality economics politics)
The Best American Essays 2007
This truth is that just about [...]
Why Big Newspapers Applaud Some Declines in Circulation - New York Times
According to the Newspaper Association of America, the average cost of getting a new subscription order, including discounts, was $68 in 2006, more than twice as much as in 2002.
(tags: newspapers)
Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price - New York Times
But companies and farm [...]