Is New Mexico Hoarding All the Good Chile, or Just Really Bad at Selling It?
New Mexico’s semi-famous green chile harvest came early this year. It’s now. Mass roasting of the smokey-yet-sweet-yet-piquant nightshade…
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‘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…
What Academics Can Teach Fareed Zakaria
Another week, another scandal featuring a famous writer. This time, it’s Time magazine columnist Fareed Zakaria, who has…
Watching Bashar al-Assad Give a Speech Is Exactly As Creepy As You’d Figure
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H28TTkKEZX8 The most challenging Ramadan since 1980 comes to an end this weekend, and not a day too soon. Based…
Happy Birthday Fidel, Part II
Nothing says happy birthday like a well-crafted card; especially if it’s a rhapsodizing, poetic missive from a fellow…
Fukushima Fallout Still Doing Damage
It’s more than a year since a titanic earthquake sparked a meltdown at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant,…
Happy Birthday Fidel
Fidel Castro turns 86 today. From AP: Communist Party newspaper Granma published memories of Castro from people familiar…
Is the Apple-ocalypse Upon Us? UPDATED
I’m a big apple guy. So imagine my dismay on Friday when the USDA staged a classic end-of-the-week…
All the Cigarettes in the World
Click to enlarge H.L. Mencken’s American Mercury once called cigarettes “the most democratic commodity in common use.” While…
The Weird Future and Weirder History of Life Insurance
When we think of “innovative financial products,” we probably think of credit-default swaps, collateralized debt obligations, and other…