* Libertarian lawyers and DC hipsters join forces to fight for the rights of food trucks. * Bay Area restaurant reviews in the style of Cormac McCarthy. * You say "macaron," I say "macaroon." * America's surprise export to Japan: high-quality hay. * Researchers conclude fiction builds empathy.
Class is back in session at campuses across the nation. But for the rest of us who yearn for an assigned reading list, the Biblioracle will recommend your next favorite novel today from 2-3:00 p.m. ET.
As Texas burns, prayers are answered in the form of a feathered-haired governor. It’s a good thing he already knows how to beat down the devil.
* Details of Obama's jobs plan, and what happens next. * Continuing unemployment stagnation in the West is far from inevitable, but only if austerity ceases. * Revolutions devour their children. The spoils go to the resolute...who know what they are pursuing and how to achieve it. * Turkey offers to
* Because it's there: UK scientists hope to revive a 1970s satellite still in orbit. * Has 9/11 spurred a great work of art—or was DeLillo right that terrorists are the myth-makers of our age? * Neuroscientists discover that you probably weren't where you thought you
Trustworthy: The genius detective must have faith in your silence, your belief in his brains, your wakefulness during stakeouts, and your way with a handgun, should he want one used but not desire to fire one himself. Loyal: Clearly you should prefer him to all other detectives. And the police.
* Proxy war fought by U.S. backed warlords in Somalia, helped create militant Islamist threat. * Beyond refugee camps, a life of dignified exile avoids double-victimization. * Images of the wildfires that have devastated central Texas this week. * Comparing the acreage destroyed by this season's Texas wildfires: The damage
Construction continues at the new World Trade Center—as does criticism of the approved designs. But a look deep inside the new structure shows the progress so far has proven to be in exactly the right direction.
* The silent drought in Nairobi slums: Aid organizations' emergency indicators don't work in cities. * Forty years on, researchers test willpower of the "marshmallow experiment" participants. * How lawyer-turned-innovator Narcis Monturiol invented the submarine, then was promptly forgotten. * Dutch realize they need a mountain, plan
I got a huge, honking crush on this guy right before I moved to South America at age 26, my splashy sayonara to the daily grind. He was funny and peculiar, we laughed while eating dinner at a place called Rock N Roll Pizza, and out of these details I
