April 23, 2012: Afternoon
- Why women are a foreign policy issue: This is a "full participation" age.
- Two takes on recent pan-African development.
- One hundred years of shipping summarized in a short video.
- Two generations removed from the Holocaust, young Israelis begin to embrace Germany.
- Report from inside Europe's only school for quants.
- Selena Ross on Montreal's sabotage-filled snow removal wars.
- Lovely photos taken from dumpsters transformed into pinhole cameras.
- Economist's tips for dining out include ordering the ugliest thing on the menu.
- Econ lessons from a pot dealer.
- Interview with the first family of Wild Turkey bourbon.
- The more effective prohibition is at raising costs, the greater are drug industry revenues.
- Techniques to beat a polygraph test are simple and effective—and polygraph tests are anything but.
- If you create a spreadsheet for the women you like on Match.com, don't tell your date; if your date asks to see it, don't send it to her.
- Demarcate and associate: How to cope with having too much to read.
- Eleven facts about Damien Hirst's spot paintings.
- Examples of people on Twitter who don't know how to spell cologne.