March 13, 2012: Afternoon
- Ezra Klein on the history of presidential rhetoric, and whether all those efforts at persuasion work.
- Field guide to the middle-class American family.
- Using heart monitors and data analysis, scientists hope to solve the Cundiff Conundrum, or, choking under pressure.
- Confessions of a small fish in the big pond of Major League baseball.
- Report from an HR worker.
- Underdog Malt-o-Meal snaps up Pepsi's famous "Choice of New Generation" catchphrase after it lapses.
- The ballad of (escape artist) Christopher Daniel Gay, and other thrilling tales.
- Today in #TheRooster, wife meets child.
- Data tracked from seven sports books on which March Madness teams are getting bets.
- Don't miss Pasha Malla's mother's picks for the Tournament.
- See also: Brackets without bias.
- Fight breaks out during Chicago Symphony concert; conductor doesn't stop despite flashing "dagger eyes."
- "This is the broken window of social behavior—when you ignore people walking the streets showing their ass."
- Interview with man who secretly climbed Antarctica's scariest mountain on a weekend whim.
- Short movie on 1960s and '70s ice climbing in the Northeast.