21 February 2007: Afternoon

Merck will cease pushing states to mandate vaccination for cervical cancer--not due to pressure from outside groups, but because ultimately it's bad for business.

Was Eva Braun evil or just a brickhouse? Related: Sugar packets with holocaust jokes are a terrible idea.

"Find the Illegal Immigrant" game at NYU may not exactly be the Stanford Prison Experiment, but the winner gets a gift certificate.

Violence, drugs pervade magazine subscription crews.

Foreign doctors from Germany, Japan, and France also visited the museum, which sits at the end of a decrepit street where many taxis fear to go. A visit to the brain museum.

In today's Mp3 Digest, Llewellyn Hinkes praises guitars triple-necked and greater.

Putting the Iraq war into perspective: Longer than 45 minutes, less than 355 years.

How does salmonella get into a cooked product? Ewwww.

A writer traces her family's roots through its recipe for spaghetti sauce.

Excellent interview with Thurston Moore, who has rejuvenated his 25-year-old record label, and is still way more up on music than you.

Tyler Brule's lustrous new magazine: Monocle.