April 17, 2012: Afternoon
- Bizarre publicity stunts will appear in otherwise reasonable science articles as long as they draw attention.
- Economics of the matzo market.
- Now we know: The New York Times first published "asshole" while quoting Richard Nixon.
- H.P. Lovecraft's commonplace book of fragments and ideas.
- See also: Lovecraft is dead; long live Lovecraft—an assessment of influence.
- Russian mathematician banned from travel due to beard trademarking problems.
- Non-Newtonian solids, aka Silly Putty, may prove to be a brilliant pothole fix.
- Straw man, bandwagon, no true Scotsman—an illustrated guide to logical fallacies.
- Twenty percent of Americans uninterested in going online.
- GQ interview with Derrick Rose, mature enough at 23 to avoid Twitter.
- Three books on the true nature of Paris, including the forthcoming title (next week!) from TMN's @Rosecrans Baldwin.
- Regarding this morning's headline about Churchill's style: Blame the Victorians for making menswear boring.
- Jacket designer Peter Mendelsund on romantic mismatch and Simone de Beauvoir.