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Literary critic judges Obama based on his prose.
Rising temperature of coffee deemed hoax perpetuated by anti-caffeine lobby.
Hot jocks and variations online, in this week’s Digital Ramble.
Salon and Sarah Hepola begin a week in bacon, kicking it off with fashion statements.
“If you can get the person across from you to laugh, they probably won’t kill you.” Palestinian-American comic with cerebral palsy takes her jokes to the Middle East, and to Hollywood.
It takes a tiger: In China, officials punished for faked big cat photo; it takes patience: Michael Vick’s dogs are being rehabilitated.
Native Americans celebrate the resilience of their culture, war veterans, and hope on July 4th.
The pie that ate itself: experts say our world was created by Pangaea’s “self-subduction.”
Argument for the objective beauty of wind farms.
Profile of New York subway portrait-sketchers.
Video: A subway full of identical twins.
With the Olympics now a month out, China curtails its polluters—the economic effect is felt abroad.
New study finds voter turnout is affected by social activity genes.
Video: David Lynch on the origin of ideas.
There is something vulgar, almost absurd, in the notion of a Mrs. Plato or a Mme. Descartes, or of Wittgenstein on a honeymoon. On the abundance of bachelor geniuses.
Nadal bests Federer in epic Wimbledon final; watch video highlights here.
Muscle-mapping T-shirts could be used to improve your tennis swing.
Slim Goodbody, he of the organ-painted bodysuit, still educating, still 155 pounds.
Drug offers the longevity benefits of calorie restriction—without restricting calories.
Video: The Showbiz Pizza Band performs Usher’s “Love in This Club.”