From The Washington Monthly, a special report on the Agent Orange Boomerang: A dark legacy of the Vietnam War is creating a whole new set of problems. A big reason we know that we're experiencing record colds is because of historical temperature data, the same data that skeptics keep claiming is flawed or forged, the same data showing a clear upward trend in average temperatures over the past 100 years. The secret of ratings success: Why are academics applying algorithms to episodes of the TV drama CSI Las Vegas? Thesaurus rex: Gene Weingarten tries to update his old-fashioned slang to modern lingo. The preface and entries on cartooning, conservative interregnum, 1920-32, labor parties, race and politics since 1933, the Supreme Court, voting, and transnational influences on American policy from The Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History, ed. Michael Kazin. A look at why big farms can treat their workers better than small farms. A review of Fly by Wire: The Geese, the Glide, the Miracle on the Hudson by William Langewiesche. From Dark Roasted Blend, an article on mysterious non-Egyptian pyramids. Eliot Spitzer on what patent applications can tell us about America's economic prospects. The age of consent: Interactive TV has made our culture more conservative than ever. From FLYP, as the pace of life quickens, the number of applications for ten-day silent meditation retreats has gone through the roof. The loneliness network: Strange as it sounds, loneliness may be contagious. It’s 2010: Unfortunately, the future doesn’t always turn out as predicted.
