http://www.instapaper.com/uhttp://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/7601157/the-headline-tweet-unfair-significance-jeremy-linThe headline, the tweet, and the unfair significance of Jeremy LinWed, 22 Feb 2012 16:52:53 ESThttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/you-know-the-deficit-hawks-now-meet-the-deficit-owls/2011/08/25/gIQAHsoONR_blog.htmlIn contrast to “deficit hawks” who want spending cuts and revenue increases now in order to temper the deficit, and “deficit doves” who want to hold off on austerity measures until the economy has recovered, Galbraith is a deficit owl. Owls certainly don’t think we need to balance the budget soon. Indeed, they don’t concede we need to balance it at all. Owls see government spending that leads to deficits as integral to economic growth, even in good times.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 21:15:51 ESThttp://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2011/02/20/magazine/mind-secrets.htmlThe unlikely story of how I ended up in the finals of the U.S.A. Memory Championship, stock-still and sweating profusely, began a year earlier in the same auditorium, on the 19th floor of the Con Edison building near Union Square in Manhattan. I was there to write a short article about what I imagined would be the Super Bowl of savants.Tue, 21 Feb 2012 11:23:23 ESThttp://www.wired.com/magazine/2012/02/ff_forgettingpill/all/1Whenever the brain wants to retain something, it relies on just a handful of chemicals. Even more startling, an equally small family of compounds could turn out to be a universal eraser of history, a pill that we could take whenever we wanted to forget anything.Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:46:44 ESThttp://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/magazine/shopping-habits.html?_r=2&pagewanted=allAndrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even if she didn’t want us to know, can you do that? ”Thu, 16 Feb 2012 12:26:17 ESThttp://www.esquire.com/print-this/waffle-house-terrorists-0212?page=allEspecially in the case of the Waffle House terrorists, where it may be the Department of Homeland Security that's fomenting terrorWed, 18 Jan 2012 21:22:38 ESThttp://carlzimmer.com/articles/index.php?subaction=showfull&id=1325528245&archive=&start_from=&ucat=15&The looming figure is Neil Tyson, the director of the Rose Center for Earth and Space at the American Museum of Natural History. He has just put the crowd into a swoon by switching on a laser and pointing it towards the zenith of the sky. The green beam seems to reach up from the field and touch the star.Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:52:29 ESThttp://theamericanscholar.org/solitude-and-leadership/The lecture below was delivered to the plebe class at the United States Military Academy at West Point in October 2009.Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:48:48 ESThttp://www.lamag.com/features/Story.aspx?ID=1568281That prized garage space or curbside spot you’ve been yearning for may be costing you—and the city—in ways you never realized. A journey into the world of parking, where meter maids are under siege, everybody’s on the take, and the tickets keep on comingThu, 29 Dec 2011 12:38:00 ESThttp://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/xinjiang-procedure_610145.html?nopager=1Thirty-six scheduled executions would translate into 72 kidneys and corneas divided among the regional hospitals. Every van contained surgeons who could work fast: 15-30 minutes to extract. Drive back to the hospital. Transplant within six hours. Nothing fancy or experimental; execution would probably ruin the heart.Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:04:12 ESThttp://m.wired.com/magazine/2011/12/ff_causation/all/1The truth is, our stories about causation are shadowed by all sorts of mental shortcuts. Most of the time, these shortcuts work well enough. They allow us to hit fastballs, discover the law of gravity, and design wondrous technologies. However, when it comes to reasoning about complex systems—say, the human body—these shortcuts go from being slickly efficient to outright misleading.Sun, 18 Dec 2011 22:45:46 ESThttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/1969/12/inside-the-secret-service/8390/When President Obama and two-thirds of the world’s leaders gather in New York City, it is up to the U.S. Secret Service to keep them all safe. Granted unprecedented access, our author tells the story of how the agency pulls off the most complicated security event of the year, from counter-surveillance to counter-assault, hotel booking to event scheduling.Wed, 14 Dec 2011 09:07:01 ESThttp://www.vanityfair.com/politics/2012/01/stiglitz-depression-201201.printForget monetary policy. Re-examining the cause of the Great Depression—the revolution in agriculture that threw millions out of work—the author argues that the U.S. is now facing and must manage a similar shift in the “real” economy, from industry to service, or risk a tragic replay of 80 years ago.Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:44:31 ESThttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/11/all-the-single-ladies/8654/?single_page=trueRecent years have seen an explosion of male joblessness and a steep decline in men’s life prospects that have disrupted the “romantic market” in ways that narrow a marriage-minded woman’s options: increasingly, her choice is between deadbeats (whose numbers are rising) and playboys (whose power is growing). But this strange state of affairs also presents an opportunity: as the economy evolves, it’s time to embrace new ideas about romance and family—and to acknowledge the end of “traditional” marriage as society’s highest ideal.Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:19:49 ESThttp://www.gq.com/news-politics/mens-lives/201103/schemes-of-my-father-california-eric-puchner?printable=trueMon, 12 Dec 2011 14:18:55 ESThttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/04/18/110418fa_fact_osnos?currentPage=allMon, 12 Dec 2011 14:17:58 ESThttp://www.mensjournal.com/the-blind-man-who-taught-himself-to-see/print/Mon, 12 Dec 2011 14:17:36 ESThttp://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/12/facebook_is_making_us_miserabl.htmlAs I went about my research, it became clear that behind all the liking, commenting, sharing, and posting, there were strong hints of jealousy, anxiety, and, in one case, depression. Said one interviewee about a Facebook friend, "Although he's my best friend, I kind-of despise his updates." Said another "Now, Facebook IS my work day." As I dug deeper, I discovered disturbing by-products of Facebook's rapid ascension — three new, distressing ways in which the social media giant is fundamentally altering our daily sense of well-being in both our personal and work lives.Fri, 09 Dec 2011 20:27:21 ESThttp://www.atlantamagazine.com/march2010/finalexit.aspxFri, 09 Dec 2011 13:46:56 ESThttp://www.esquire.com/features/ESQ0605BLIND_114?click=main_srWed, 30 Nov 2011 11:13:22 ESThttp://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/12/05/111205fa_fact_packer?currentPage=allMon, 28 Nov 2011 09:16:11 ESThttp://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/print/2011/12/city-solutions/kunzig-textSat, 26 Nov 2011 09:35:46 ESThttp://www.theatlanticcities.com/jobs-and-economy/2011/11/cocaine-plummeting-price-nationwide-drop-violent-crime/474/Tue, 22 Nov 2011 21:07:47 ESThttp://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2009/03/godfather200903.printFri, 18 Nov 2011 22:04:09 ESThttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pagewanted=printMon, 16 May 2011 22:44:52 EDThttp://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2010/nov/25/generation-why/?pagination=falseMon, 16 May 2011 22:34:41 EDThttp://mcsweeneys.net/links/panoramaexcerpts/Ali.htmlMon, 16 May 2011 22:31:21 EDThttp://www.texasmonthly.com/cms/printthis.php?file=feature2.php&issue=2010-04-01Mon, 16 May 2011 22:31:02 EDThttp://money.cnn.com/2010/08/20/news/companies/inside_trader_joes_full_version.fortune/Mon, 16 May 2011 22:19:00 EDThttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/10/magazine/10dinner-t.html?_r=1&pagewanted=printMon, 16 May 2011 22:18:42 EDThttp://www.details.com/culture-trends/news-and-politics/201008/interview-boxing-mike-tyson?printable=trueMon, 16 May 2011 22:18:20 EDThttp://nymag.com/news/features/65238/Mon, 16 May 2011 22:17:23 EDThttp://www.theawl.com/2010/11/my-summer-on-the-content-farmMon, 16 May 2011 22:16:33 EDThttp://www.ftrain.com/nanolaw.htmlMon, 16 May 2011 14:07:03 EDThttp://www.businessweek.com/print/magazine/content/11_21/b4229064090727.htmSun, 15 May 2011 00:31:19 EDThttp://www.newyorker.com/archive/1957/11/09/1957_11_09_053_TNY_CARDS_000252812?printable=true&currentPage=allSun, 15 May 2011 00:30:03 EDThttp://m.motherjones.com/politics/2011/03/denial-science-chris-mooneyMon, 18 Apr 2011 14:54:35 EDThttp://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-riddle-of-jimmy-carter-20110201?print=trueMon, 07 Feb 2011 13:43:49 ESThttp://www.vanityfair.com/business/features/2011/03/michael-lewis-ireland-201103?printable=trueThu, 03 Feb 2011 10:15:08 ESThttp://nymag.com/print/?/news/features/70985/Thu, 03 Feb 2011 10:14:03 ESThttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2011/01/the-rise-of-the-new-global-elite/8343/Wed, 05 Jan 2011 14:38:17 ESThttp://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/roychoudhuri.phpFri, 03 Dec 2010 22:32:56 ESThttp://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article7096105.eceWed, 01 Dec 2010 21:29:31 ESThttp://www.nashvillescene.com/gyrobase/once-a-wife-and-mother-in-a-deceptively-perfect-home-gaile-owens-is-now-the-first-woman-sentenced-to-die-in-tennessee-in-nearly-200-years/Content?oid=1507829&mode=printWed, 01 Dec 2010 21:29:25 ESThttp://www.alternet.org/module/printversion/146557Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:21:37 ESThttp://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/print/2010/04/the-wrong-man/8019/Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:21:31 ESThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/may/15/criminal-profiling-jon-ronson/printWed, 01 Dec 2010 21:21:25 ESThttp://www.gq.com/news-politics/big-issues/201007/oil-spill-rig-workers-coast-guard-crewmen?printable=true&currentPage=1Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:21:19 ESThttp://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/content/printVersion/1836407/Wed, 01 Dec 2010 21:21:01 EST