Headlines from April 23, 2012
- Why women are a foreign policy issue: This is a “full participation” age.
- There is no magic recipe for turning countries around, only good cooks. Two takes on recent pan-African development.
- One hundred years of shipping summarized in a short video.
- Two generations removed from the Holocaust, young Israelis begin to embrace Germany.
- Report from inside Europe’s only school for quants.
- Selena Ross on Montreal’s sabotage-filled snow removal wars.
- Lovely photos taken from dumpsters transformed into pinhole cameras.
- Economist’s tips for dining out include ordering the ugliest thing on the menu.
- You have to consider that in the region I’m operating in, the market’s kind of flooded. Econ lessons from a pot dealer.
- Interview with the first family of Wild Turkey bourbon.
- The more effective prohibition is at raising costs, the greater are drug industry revenues.
- Techniques to beat a polygraph test are simple and effective—and polygraph tests are anything but.
- If you create a spreadsheet for the women you like on Match.com, don’t tell your date; if your date asks to see it, don’t send it to her.
- Demarcate and associate: How to cope with having too much to read.
- Hirst has made an estimated 1,400 spot paintings since 1986. Eleven facts about Damien Hirst’s spot paintings.
- Examples of people on Twitter who don’t know how to spell cologne.
- After losing to his socialist rival in the first round of France’s presidential election, Sarkozy seeks far-right support.
- How Paula Reid, who handled the Secret Service scandal, became a leader in the white male-dominated field.
- Music is a legal drug for athletes. Running with headphones makes you faster.
- When exposed to music, dementia patients recall memories, socialize with peers.
- After an infection left him paralyzed, Michael Graves began designing better-looking medical equipment.
- Near-death experiences continue to confound neuroscientists.
- Neurobiological bases for evolution of the arts and the importance of interdisciplinary studies.
- Essay-grading computers score as accurately as humans, and in some cases with greater reliability.
- Talking pineapple standardized test questions deemed “ambiguous” by New York State Education Commissioner.
- BBC’s Planet Earth according to children. #video
- The Laptop Club: Seven- to nine-year-olds make computers from construction paper. #tmn
- From bran flakes to sugary nutrition bars, there’s room in the Kellogg ethos for Pringles and other snack foods.
- The average South Korean woman is approaching the height of the average North Korean man. North Koreans are now shorter than South Koreans.