End of the Line
GM guaranteed the people of Janesville, Wisconsin, a good wage for a hard job. Those were the days.
China’s favorite Internet craze: ‘Jia Junpeng, your mom is calling you to come home and eat.’
The post appeared on a computer gaming forum in July and became a viral joke, popping up on T-shirts and ads and celebrated in song and doctored photos. Its author and motive are unknown.
Bootylicious
What do the pirates of yore tell us about their modern counterparts?
How Did Economists Get It So Wrong?
Few economists saw our current crisis coming, but this predictive failure was the least of the field’s problems. More important was the profession’s blindness to the very possibility of catastrophic failures in a market economy.
The Boy Who Heard Too Much
He was a 14-year-old blind kid, angry and alone. Then he discovered that he possessed a strange and fearsome superpower – one that put him in the cross hairs of the FBI
Jay Leno Is the Future of TV. Seriously
Washington Redskins Sold Brokers Tickets Despite Wait List
Google Books: A Metadata Train Wreck
Can we observe the way “happiness” replaced “felicity” in the seventeenth century, as Keith Thomas suggests? When did “the United States are” start to lose ground to “the United States is”? How did the use of propaganda rise and fall by decade over the course of the twentieth century? To answer those questions you need good metadata. And Google’s are a train wreck: a mish-mash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.
The Judgment of Sharon Keller
As she goes on trial this month, nearly everyone—journalists, lawyers, and even some of her colleagues—is calling for her head, but is the presiding judge of the Court of Criminal Appeals the monster she’s been made out to be?
A Mugging on Lake Street
A veteran investigative reporter looks into his own beating and finds himself confronting harsh and lingering questions of race
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