March 14, 2012: Afternoon
- Ex-employees of Google, Goldman Sachs, and Yahoo air grievances.
- Refining the Sundem/Tierney theory to predict the demise of celebrity marriages.
- Today in #TheRooster: writer and actor Wil Wheaton on different ideas of travel.
- Buy anything from Field Notes during the ToB and receive a red notebook free with coupon code ROOSTER.
- When you feel you've had just enough of a book and put it down, does that still count as having read it?
- White paper: Property rights and the economic origins of the Sicilian mafia.
- Linguist says "slut" is becoming stronger, more offensive.
- How to be a Soviet girl!
- Study finds good looking people are stereotyped as more confident, warm, and stable—and thus become so.
- Life on Earth made possible by "an arms race involving trillions of sea creatures."
- Beckett pros treat their man like a saint, when he was actually interested in and vexed about publishing.
- Preparing for tomorrow: What exactly are the Ides of March, and why to beware them.
- Obama predicts Kentucky-UNC NCAA final, with UNC winning for revenge.
- German intellectual says atheists can't fully appreciate Bach.