May 4, 2012: Afternoon
- Schröder: Austerity is strangling Europe; a real political union is now required.
- In America in 1968, like Europe today, austerity was the goal; it is not so in America now.
- Law schools hire graduates to help them find jobs, and possibly to boost schools' grad-employment rates.
- Story of the missing cosmonauts.
- Psychologist Margie Profet was a Genius Grant-certified rising star, then she disappeared without a trace.
- The idea that the U.S. can make a powerful country like China change its political and legal system simply by insisting on it—by “doing something”—is delusional.
- Yes, using the internet changes your brain, but so does making tea.
- Everything you need to know about "Call Me Maybe," its deeper message and those many cover videos.
- Battle notes from the McDonald's counteroffensive to convince skeptics they're wrong about fast food.
- Zazzle's loose formula for putting images on T-shirts and beer steins brings internet spam to life.
- The best designs in modern sci-fi.
- Books recommended by where they were read.
- How to obtain and keep a mentor.
- Reddit users attempt to convince members to love musical genres they say they hate.
- In Downton Abbey, Anglophiles enjoy a false nostalgia for the British country-house setting.
- Superhero origin story of Joss Whedon—pretty much responsible for our entire current pop culture.