Headlines from July 24, 2009
- Global poll says Obama's election restored the U.S.'s image to levels unseen since the Clinton years.
- U.S. troops in Afghanistan eager to see more Afghan forces--they're cheap, know the terrain, and are respected by locals.
- Most Americans don't like Sarah Palin.
- Obama calls Buehrle to congratulate him on his perfect game.
- Introducing the collapsitarian, one who lives in wait for the economic apocalypse so he can profit from the ashes.
- Portions of your neurons are devoted to celebrities.
- India finally funds universal compulsory education, hoping to reduce child labor in the process.
- Memoir exposed of the Brit who spied for Stalin prior to overseeing the Queen's art collection.
- Tracking the Daily Mail's attempt to link every inanimate object to cancer.
- Graphic of minimum wage across America.
- Math has the answers: Why valleys and ridges are evenly spaced.
- Video: Indie bands fact-check their Wikipedia entries.
- "Thriving subculture of men and women in Japan" who date pillows.
- Rift in the Quiverfull movement--rapidly reproducing Christians--divides those who use help during birth and those less compassionate.
- Studying the price of laughter, from Jon Stewart to squirrel underpants.
- The mechanics of how N.B.A. agents work their way into representing elite high school recruits.
- Where you should go--or should have gone--to college to pull in the biggest paycheck.
- Why your office should be blue and also filled with references to foreign countries.