* After receiving threats, theater owners in Tokyo and Osaka cancel showings of The Cove. * How Japan's marketing team, averse to its overseas market, has led to the demise of the country's cool factor. * More on the "Prince Charles problem": France raises its retirement age-
Bus lines across New York are being rerouted this summer, if not cancelled—and where buses go, so goes the city.
Preparing for Capitol Hill grilling, BP backs away from comment about caring for "small people." Google turns its CitizenTube blog into the YouTube News Feed (see here). Fascinating interview with Clara Rojas, former FARC prisoner, about freedom and jungles. The sea is one world, and the sewage is
If gas was free, vacation days were unlimited, and your schedule was as open as the road ahead, where would you go? This month’s Of Recent Note is: Fantasy Road Trips. Tell us the trip of your dreams: Where would you go? (Alaska? Atlantis?) How would you get there?
I think even libertarians recognize certain kinds of speech ought to be restrictable. Legal scholar discusses the state of civil liberty. A profile of culinary anthropologist, diner historian Richard Gutman. How personalities foreshadow family size--the more neurotic you are, the more you procreate. The World Cup will cost Brazil
Reasons to feel overwhelmed—meaningless lists; R.I.P. David Markson; the reign of Justin Cronin.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Those who reject the ideas of political Islam are in touch with Muslims on a local level. Obama's strategy has been in place for less than six months. Why reaching conclusions in Afghanistan is premature. Times reporter fights bloggers over claims his Afghan minerals story
Where people build homes, birds sometimes build nests—and there’s no guarantee cohabitation of the species will be idyllic.
They are more than twice as likely to report having struggled with substance abuse. Study explores sperm donor children's suffering. Apple juice can reduce anxiety, delusion in Alzheimer's patients. Freakonomist discusses health reform, Wall Street, and how to motivate students to do well. A common sunscreen
Dear Mr. Erard, I remember my first, too. It was my first quarter as a history graduate student, and I was grading for a class on the Dark Ages. It was a paper on the Black Death; the student in question began his introduction with an especially lucid and off-
