April 29, 2013: Afternoon
- In China, 87 percent of the population shares 100 names.
- On the black market, a totoaba fish bladder demands $5,000 in the U.S.—and $10,000 in Asia.
- The wild-pig population is exploding, destroying the planet and costing billions of dollars.
- Why your supermarket only sells five kinds of apples.
- Budweiser's "Buddy Cup" technology makes people Facebook friends when they clink glasses.
- The tranquilizer that seduced 1950s Hollywood.
- In the high Middle Ages a city like Ghent could count its Beguines in thousands.
- In France, many employers include handwriting analysis in job interviews—though it doesn't determine whether someone is hired.
- Related: Giles Turnbull answers the world's oddest job interview questions.
- True tales from the New Yorker's copy editing desk.
- An astronaut's photo captures the disappearing Berlin Wall.
- He's 26 years old, comes from Japan, plays baseball in Texas and can throw pitches like no one else in the game.
- GWU introduces MBA program for NFL retirees, who average 3.5 years in the game and blow through their savings in 10.
- The Longform guide to sad retired athletes.
- Why Iceland.