http://www.instapaper.com/starredhttp://www.theatlantic.com/food/print/2010/08/sweet-memories-how-jelly-belly-invents-flavors/61477/In an echoing, high-ceilinged chamber in Northern California, there spin row upon row of what look like small cement mixers. The gleaming metal drums churn for hours on end while white-uniformed technicians pour in sugar, corn starch, color, and certain other, more miraculous concoctions. Out of one drum comes a whiff of red apple, conjuring a fall afternoon spent picking fruit; from another comes the buttered-popcorn scent of an evening at the movies. Out of drum after drum, all down the room, come smells evoking everything from apple pie to piña coladas to freshly mown grass.Wed, 25 Aug 2010 17:37:59 EDThttp://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/08/22/does-the-web-make-experts-dumb/Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:19:18 EDThttp://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/10-reading-revolutions-before-e-books/62004/Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:10:34 EDThttp://www.esquire.com/print-this/argentine-ant-control-0810?page=allYou think it’d be impossible to share your house with your wife, your daughter, and fifty million or so Argentine ants. And you would be correct.Thu, 19 Aug 2010 17:47:02 EDThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jul/25/ron-fanelli-wanphen-pienjai-poker/printRon Fanelli was a poker player: loud, brash, rightwing, ex-US navy. Victoria Coren liked him. Then last week she learned that he had confessed to killing bar girl Wanphen Pienjai in Thailand and chopping up her body.Wed, 18 Aug 2010 18:02:21 EDThttp://americaviaerica.blogspot.com/2010/07/coxsackie-athens-valedictorian-speech.htmlWed, 11 Aug 2010 17:44:56 EDThttp://www.gq.com/entertainment/celebrities/201008/conan-obrien-profile?printable=trueWed, 11 Aug 2010 17:32:44 EDThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/aug/08/tony-judt-obituary?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitterWed, 11 Aug 2010 14:28:30 EDThttp://www.nybooks.com/blogs/nyrblog/2010/mar/11/girls-girls-girls/Wed, 11 Aug 2010 14:12:45 EDThttp://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2010/08/a-bookfuturist-manifesto/61231/Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:32:10 EDThttp://www.latimes.com/features/printedition/magazine/la-tm-gonewild32aug06,0,1675556,full.storyTue, 10 Aug 2010 17:28:00 EDThttp://condor.depaul.edu/~mwilson/extra/multicultur/nora.htmThu, 05 Aug 2010 17:42:50 EDThttp://snarkmarket.com/nla/new-liberal-arts.htmlSat, 31 Jul 2010 18:08:00 EDThttp://www.theawl.com/2010/07/what-its-really-like-to-be-a-copy-editorI never necessarily aspired to be a copy editor. I enjoyed the experience—seriously, your job is to sit and read articles—but when my day-camp counselor asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up, I did not tell her that I hoped one day to correct who-whom mix-ups or determine whether “faucetry” was a real, dictionary-approved word. I told her I wanted to be a princess.Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:22:28 EDThttp://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/features/2010/08/drugs-in-hollywood-201008?printable=true&currentPage=allBefore Timothy Leary and the Beatles, LSD was largely unknown and unregulated. But in the 1950s, as many as 100 Hollywood luminaries—Cary Grant and Esther Williams among them—began taking the drug as part of psychotherapy.Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:50:48 EDThttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/29/science/29tier.html?8dpc=&pagewanted=printAt long last, the doodling daydreamer is getting some respect.Thu, 29 Jul 2010 10:57:14 EDThttp://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/26/world/europe/26iceland.htmlThu, 29 Jul 2010 10:25:16 EDThttp://paulgraham.com/addiction.htmlWed, 28 Jul 2010 17:35:31 EDThttp://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/06/23/confirmation-bias/Tue, 27 Jul 2010 17:09:05 EDThttp://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jun/21/higgs-boson/printWe have all heard of ‘dark matter’. But what about dark galaxies, dark planets - even dark people?Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:21:17 EDThttp://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/03/magazine/03trolls-t.html?_r=2&pagewanted=printMeasured in terms of depravity, insularity and traffic-driven turnover, the culture of /b/ has little precedent. /b/ reads like the inside of a high-school bathroom stall, or an obscene telephone party line, or a blog with no posts and all comments filled with slang that you are too old to understand.Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:34:15 EDThttp://idlethink.wordpress.com/2008/11/26/only-collect/Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:27:17 EDThttp://tweetagewasteland.com/2010/07/the-webs-five-most-endangered-words/Sat, 24 Jul 2010 06:15:49 EDThttp://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2010/06/gawande-stanford-speech.htmlThu, 22 Jul 2010 17:53:23 EDThttp://moreintelligentlife.com/print/2756Once, it was only a game. Now sport is a never-ending drama, a soap opera watched all over the world. Tim de Lisle works out how it happened.Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:01:27 EDT