30 July 2010: Weekend

  • So long, Peter Orszag; index of remaining "beautiful," mostly white, thin people remaining in D.C.
  • Op: "The Senate's retreat from cap and trade might lead to a carbon tax. For now, it leaves a dreadful mess."
  • Searchable Washington Post database of companies involved in top-secret work.
  • "Illegal" coal mines near Beijing used to hide bodies after extortion schemes.
  • That LeBron-does-Vegas story that ESPN killed--sort of lame, sort of a big, spiked deal.
  • The feeling is just the trigger. We are the loaded gun. Jonah Lehrer on stress.
  • Notes from inside "The Scene" and the peer-to-peer groups from which movie releases continue to flow.
  • Video: Field Notes trip to an Iowa state fair.
  • Resident videos show more than a million gallons of oil flowing into the Kalamazoo River in Michigan.
  • Swagger on 200,000 thousand trillion!!! A brief history of Kanye West's Twitter.
  • Canadian airport security developing response to luggage stickers depicting cocaine and abducted flight attendants.
  • List of unusual deaths, from 620 B.C. onward; list of the best medical graphic novels.
  • New theory suggests emotions developed as bargaining tools.
  • Illustrated history of Vans sneakers.
  • Churchill's dentures, vital to the war effort, auctioned off for $23,740.
  • From the attic: John Warner's orthodontia saga.
  • People who believe in alien abductions are more likely than nonbelievers to drink Pepsi. Flickr co-founder building ultimate recommendation program.
  • Inventor of Settlers of Catan, "the perfect board game," hopes to catch up to Monopoly's popularity.
  • Where the Wild Thongs Are. Worst Children's Books.