Keeping Circumcision on the Table
In early 2011 Beryl Lieff Benderly, writing in the pages of Miller-McCune (the precursor to Pacific Standard, described…
More Datapoints on the Rise of Diesel
Thanks to a particularly devastating refinery fire in the Bay Area that sucker-punched California supplies, the spot price…
First They Came for the Bahá’í …
For a country trying to swim upstream against a torrent of international approbation, Iran makes some intriguing choices…
Adding a Crock Pot to the Environmental Arsenal
Today’s Wall Street Journal has another entry in the “if you can’t beat ‘em, eat ‘em” category of…
Mexico Now Has Universal Health Care
As the contenders and seconds in the United States’ presidential duel continue slapping each others’ cheeks with allegations…
Prospecting for Electric Cars’ Second Golden Age
A Fisker Surf differs ever so slightly from the Hupp-Yeats electric coach of yesteryear … In his debut…
‘Power Gloat’ Ready to Take the Field
Back in 2010 we told you about how “power poses”—open, expansive positions of the body—actually made test subjects…
Start Highstepping When Politicians are Sidestepping
Marc Herman’s 101 post about flash mobs flamenco-ing in Spain’s ailing banks sounds like an echo, or perhaps…
Hands Up or I’ll Fill You Full of Non-Toxic Gilding Metals
The BBC reports that Scandinavian militaries are completely switching their bullets from lead slugs to a greener concoction…
Fear, Spiders and the Perception of Threat
A female Mexican red-knee tarantula Kevin Charles Redmon’s piece Tuesday on how spiders so thoroughly put the fear…