Mar/Apr 2013
Tired of Annoying Ads When You're Listening to Music?
Inventors have been trying to find a way to silence ads since way before Spotify, Pandora and Grooveshark
How Do We Keep Veterans with PTSD Out of Jail?
They survived Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the challenge is keeping traumatized vets out of jail.
Worrying About BMI and Bad Cholesterol Numbers? Me Too
An athlete and gourmand, mugged by reality
Live-Tweeting the Symphony
In a desperate attempt to engage with younger audiences, arts organizations are scrambling to make their productions more interactive. But who really is more engaged: A live-tweeting audience member, or someone staring silently at the stage?
Can Australia Keep Beating the Economic Odds?
While the rest of the rich world stumbled from crisis to crisis, Australia’s economy has steadily grown. Is the nation just blessed by geography—or have its leaders figured out something we haven’t?
New Books on Climate Change: 'Overheated' and 'A New World'
Not everyone is a pessimist when it comes to predicting the impact of climate change. Too bad the optimists aren’t nearly as convincing.
Why Americans Don’t Save— and What We Can Do About It
Five studies on American's dwindling savings
Africa’s genital-stealing crime wave hits the countryside
Africa’s genital-stealing crime wave hits the countryside.
The Energy Debate We Aren't Having
The energy boom has the nation mired in chatter about a burgeoning job market, or panicked over certain environmental destruction. Instead, we should be asking: To whom will go the spoils of this bonanza, and on whose shoulders will the risks fall?
We Are Entering a New Era of Fossil Fuels
Rapidly advancing technologies are opening up astonishing sources of oil and gas all over the world. We are entering a new era of fossil fuels that is reshaping global economics and politics—and the planet.
Hotelling's Law: Why Everything Starts to Look the Same
Why do Burger King and McDonald's start to sell the same salad? There's a name for that phenomenon.
Books: Robin Nagle's 'Picking Up'
Inside the dangerous, high-stakes world of sanitation
How Much Does That Company Actually Give to Charity?
The trouble with shopping your way to good works
The Problem of Reproducibility in the Social Sciences
Do classic psychological studies published in high-profile journals hold up? The Reproducibility Project aims to find out.
Why Americans Are the Weirdest People in the World
Joe Henrich and his colleagues are shaking the foundations of psychology and economics—and hoping to change the way social scientists think about human behavior and culture.
Robert Lustig and the War on Obesity
It will be if Robert Lustig has anything to say about it.