-FoodInJars: A Field Guide to Jars
-CanadianBusiness: Decades later, a Cold War secret is revealed [backstory on the KH-9 satellites]
-NYTMagazine: How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body
[reminded me of a line from 'Born To Run' - “Forget yoga. Every runner I know who does yoga gets hurt.” Also, CNN did a segment on the article and interviewed a former classmate of mine]
-NYTMagazine: Carrie Brownstein Starter Kit
[not surprised that we are both KITH fans]
-Smithsonian: The Most Terrible Polar Exploration Ever: Douglas Mawson’s Antarctic Journey
-NYT: Spirit of a Racer in a Dog’s Blood
-GQ: The Gary Oldman Story That Almost Wasn't
related interview with Charlie Rose from 2/22/2012
-Wired: The NSA Is Building the Country’s Biggest Spy Center (Watch What You Say)
-Prospect: Wolves to the Slaughter
This applies to deer hunting in Michigan too:
What the elk-hunting industry wants... is hunting that requires no effort and little skill, a kind of vanity hunting.-Outside: On the Trail of the White Horse | Searching for Caballo Blanco
-NYT: Caballo Blanco’s Last Run: The Micah True Story
-FC: The Lost Steve Jobs Tapes
-Smithsonian: Matt Groening Reveals the Location of the Real Springfield
-GQ: The Man Who Hacked Hollywood
-Crain's Chicago: Sears – where America shopped [the story of the decline of Sears]
-NYMag: Born This Way: The new weird science of hardwired political identity
-NYT: As Bison Return to Prairie, Some Rejoice, Others Worry
-TheAtlantic: How Vegetable Oils Replaced Animal Fats in the American Diet
-NaturalRunningCenter: Bill Bowerman, His Wife’s Waffle Iron, Nike’s Early Days and Birth of the Modern Running Shoe
-NYT: Finding the First Americans
-NakedCapitalsim: Malcolm Gladwell Unmasked: A Look Into the Life & Work of America’s Most Successful Propagandist [I've always found MG a good writer but a less than convincing theorist]
-Fortune: The truth about the Fast and Furious scandal
Irony abounds when it comes to the Fast and Furious scandal. But the ultimate irony is this: Republicans who support the National Rifle Association and its attempts to weaken gun laws are lambasting ATF agents for not seizing enough weapons—ones that, in this case, prosecutors deemed to be legal.-Slate: Why YKK? The mysterious Japanese company behind the world’s best zippers.
-FastCoCreate: Wes Anderson Maps Out The Peculiar Genius Of "Moonrise Kingdom"
-VF: Investigation: Mitt Romney’s Offshore Accounts, Tax Loopholes, and Mysterious I.R.A.
-ProPublica: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Voter ID Laws
-Reuters Special Report: How Washington went soft on childhood obesity
-The Daily Traveler Interview with Alton Brown: Alton Brown on Flying, Airplane Food, and Why Frosting Is Definitely Not a Gel and Alton Brown on the Importance of Slow Travel and Staticky Radio
-AdWeek: 'Good Eats' Host Gives Adweek the Dish on His Media Habits
-Smithsonian: Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
-Wired: Biophysicist Opens Genomic Black Box, Finds Ramen Noodles
-Prospect UK: Why are languages so different—and disorderly?
-RS: Greed and Debt: The True Story of Mitt Romney and Bain Capital
-FP: The Nudgy State: How five governments are using behavioral economics to encourage citizens to do the right thing
-NYT: Snow Fall: The Avalanches at Tunnel Creek [beautiful use of HTML5 too]
-Atlantic: When the Nerds Go Marching In: How a dream team of engineers from Facebook, Twitter, and Google built the software that drove Barack Obama's reelection
