* Nasdaq pledges $40 million to settle broker disputes in Facebook IPO. * Silicon Valley's next hot tech IPO. * Imagining life after a "total hack," where everything you've clicked can be seen by everyone else. * Chinese students stress over gao kao, notoriously difficult college entrance exams
Victory has many faces—some of them just happen to be painted. A story of violence, true love, the road from New York to Lexington, and the religion that is college basketball.
* Party leaders, presidential candidates, and talking heads judged on truthiness. * Five ideas to manage a potential break-up of the eurozone. * Norwegian prison to hire friends to spend time with mass killer Breivik. * Most deadly attack in weeks kills 20 at Kandahar airport. * Study finds patients fear their doctors and
Being overseas, the traveler is often taken for a diplomat—to explain his native country’s strange ways and beliefs. For example, why do all Americans belong to cults? What does Michelle Pfeiffer eat for breakfast? And why so many guns?
* Democrats picked a fight and lost, but it's no harbinger of Obama's fate. * NYC rescinds no-tolerance policy on possession of less than an ounce of marijuana. * Bloomberg's ban on sugary drinks has its critics, but he has evolutionary biology—and our predilection to
* The economic case for bribery. * Complete our 2012 Reader Survey, and you could win a TMN Prize Pack. * Happiness is statistically abnormal, consists of a discrete cluster of symptoms, is associated with a range of cognitive abnormalities. * Pretexting, baiting, and other social engineering techniques scammers use to exploit "bugs
* Western journalists, including Pulitzer-winning Peter Arnett, on what it's like to move to China to teach journalism. * Notes on the under-researched phenomenon that is drunk speech. * Roundtable with the creators of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Deadwood (aka The Milch Man) on the art of current
* Wifi owners engage in amateur campaigning through network naming. * Google warns Chinese users when a search term is likely to get their internet disconnected. * Shanghai stock exchange falls 64.89 on the anniversary of Tiananmen Square—China blocks searches for news of today's market close. * Related: Jonathan Gourlay
Bye-bye Williams sisters and all that. It’s week two of the French Open now, and almost no American players are left. But just yesterday, there she was: Sloane Stephens, a 19-year-old sunbeam straight out of Florida and one of the last Americans standing. She’s black,
Our man in Boston talks to the Pulitzer winner about his new memoir, “Thoughts Without Cigarettes”—plus New York, parks in Berlin, how publishing currently compares to Indian restaurants, what life would be like if “Mambo Kings “hadn’t hit it big, and the difficulties of writing about yourself.
