May 15, 2012: Morning
- Massachusetts, the most Sweden-like of states, is also one of the most successful in the country.
- When you have a bank as big as JPMorgan...almost anything could count as "hedging."
- From the mid-'70s to six years ago, Kodak operated a secret nuclear reactor beneath its Rochester headquarters.
- 1987 NY baby snatcher faces sentencing.
- Reproduction today: Wannabe grandparents help pay for egg freezing.
- Phallic rock formations in Turkey's aptly named Love Valley.
- To archeologists, fossilized dental plaque is more interesting than fossilized skulls.
- Drew Toothpaste finds the worst Amazon listings so you don't have to.
- Algorithms are just frolicking in the mountains of data that they can play with.
- "It's not a lie if nobody cares" and other lying advice from George Costanza.
- A documentary from 1987: Brian Eno on Creating Music and Art as Imaginary Landscapes.