July 22, 2014
- With Israel and Hamas each dedicated to the other's destruction, a two-state solution is very far away.
- Three takeaways from the demise of Kerry’s attempt to broker an agreement between Israel and the PA.
- Hamas tells the Palestinians a simple truth: freedom comes at the cost of blood. The tragedy is that Israel provides the evidence.
- Religious kids more likely to believe fairy tales; secular five-year-olds found to be more skeptical.
- EU and US sanctions against Russian officials and businessmen explained.
- Germany broke the World Cup trophy while partying.
- Thorough guide to following soccer now that the World Cup is done.
- Robot soccer quickly becoming sophisticated, and now includes automated referees.
- Seventeenth-century guide to swimming offers modern advice in light of three near-drownings.
- Report card on the future of big-time stargazing.
- The decline of Kodak, in photos.
- Shipping-container living arrives in DC; architects want to build sea-container apartments on a barge in the Potomac.
- Tuesday's poem: "Romanticism 101," by Dean Young.
- Highlights from the archives of the New Yorker, which has opened its paywall gates for summer.
- Study finds pharmacists more likely to buy generic pain relievers, chefs more likely to buy generic salt.
- Pickpocket and family man offers glimpses of life as a thief in New York.
- Top universities now produce meek adults, with amazing skills but little direction—perfect for business and finance.
- John le Carré on Philip Seymour Hoffman.
- Your Tuesday happy: Old man dances.