May 9, 2012: Morning
- Greece's exit from the euro zone now looking increasingly likely.
- Bomber given the advanced underwear device found to be a CIA and Saudi intelligence informant.
- Economics lessons on how to negotiate with pirates.
- Notes on why the "broccoli argument" is a rhetorical tour de force that captures the anxieties of Obamacare's enemies.
- The fact that the Hindenburg had a smoking lounge teaches us a lot about risk, markets, and fashion.
- How craft beers could save the economy.
- An 11-year-old took a Stanford class online and all he got were some lousy videos.
- R.I.P., Maurice Sendak, dead at 83.
- Part one of the terrific Colbert-Sendak interviews.
- Ferrari apologizes for burning rubber on a 14th-century Chinese wall with a new car dipped in "Marco Polo red."
- Nevada issues first license for a self-driving car.
- Researchers ask bikers to record roadkill in the name of transportation advancement.
- "Moto-polo"—played with motorbikes, duct-tape, and beer.
- Tasting notes on a meal eaten with spoons coated with various metals.
- All of the first investigations of the limits of life came about as an inadvertent byproduct of innovations in food preservation.
- Twenty-nine touristy eating spots in America that are actually good.