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The amount of politically correct professors in each discipline.
How making decisions exhausts your brain.
Reporter David Carr remembers his many dark years by interviewing family and friends.
Les Paul’s time has been pretty much any decade since the 1920s.
Pitchfork’s “Overlooked Records 2008.”
Video: Tarantino’s Mind.
How the uncanny similarity of joy and despair’s expressions appealed to Darwin.
Loads of unecessary knowledge, and loads of wonderful links.
How to cook the world’s greatest snack food: Cincinnati chili.
American embassy dusts off, expands program to help U.S.-employed Iraqis obtain visas, citizenship.
Obama in Berlin: The police estimated that over 200,000 people…thronged the boulevard that stretches between the Prussian Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate.
Another possibility is that books per se are not especially interesting. An exploration of possible reasons for “reader’s block.”
Young Jeezy exhausts every rhyme possibility except “Cliff Clavin.”
Deciding the New Orleans food scene has rebounded, The Times-Picayune resurrects its critiques.
Tougher than getting a same-sex marriage: getting a same-sex divorce.
Scientists reveal origins of aurora borealis: magnetic explosions between the Earth and moon.