Footnotes

Green, a journalist who has covered the NYC public schools, convincingly argues that, contrary to popular belief, great teaching is more science than art.

Last issue, Ethan Watters described Nancy Scheper-Hughes' decades-long efforts to expose a hidden global market for human organs.

A recent forum on "The Science of Justice" didn't just talk about the unreliability of eyewitnesses—the presenters proved it with a real-time robbery.

Economist Paul Dolan proposes that happiness is a balance of pleasant feelings and a sense of purpose.

On harnessing your emotions for good, trusting people, and working as a research journal editor.

While researching her article on telephone fraud, Shirley Streshinsky interviews a "grandparent" scammer who was awaiting sentencing in a federal prison.

A warning from the Internal Revenue Service about telephone calls from fake IRS agents.

I was pleasantly surprised to find Daniel Duane's piece on weightlifting ("How the Other Half Lifts," July/August).

If you took all the diamonds ever mined in history and poured them onto a tennis court, the players would be wading in bling so deep it would cover the net.

An archaeologist unearths the remains of iconic modern hippie commune, and finds that even recent historical memory is clouded by stereotype and distortion.