Mar/Apr 2013

Inside one of the world's most colorful festivals

• By Vince Beiser

Inventors have been trying to find a way to silence ads since way before Spotify, Pandora and Grooveshark

• By Matt Novak

They survived Iraq and Afghanistan. Now the challenge is keeping traumatized vets out of jail.

• By Kristina Shevory

An athlete and gourmand, mugged by reality

• By Daniel Duane

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?

• By Tom Jacobs

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?

• By Mark Thirlwell

Not everyone is a pessimist when it comes to predicting the impact of climate change. Too bad the optimists aren’t nearly as convincing.

• By Lisa Margonelli

Five studies on American's dwindling savings

• By Pacific Standard Staff

Africa’s genital-stealing crime wave hits the countryside.

• By Louisa Lombard

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?

• By Lisa Margonelli

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.

• By Vince Beiser

Why do Burger King and McDonald's start to sell the same salad? There's a name for that phenomenon.

• By Vince Beiser

Inside the dangerous, high-stakes world of sanitation

• By Tim Heffernan

The trouble with shopping your way to good works

• By Tom Bartlett

Do classic psychological studies published in high-profile journals hold up? The Reproducibility Project aims to find out.

• By Kayt Sukel

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.

• By Ethan Watters

It will be if Robert Lustig has anything to say about it.

• By Elizabeth Weil