From The Texas Observer, police admired Barry Cooper when he lied to put drug dealers in prison; then he flipped the game on them. From Vice, an interview with Glenn Danzig. A look at 5 pop culture classics created out of laziness. Hopeless with numbers: Lots of people are bad at maths, and some even wear their innumeracy as a badge of pride — William Leith believes we can improve our attitude. As their infinite variety of meaning and effect suggests, epigraphs are about more than just literary adornment. In Britain, they're traditionally about as artistically inspiring as Mo Mowlam's forehead; in Japan, hundreds of manhole covers serve as works of art, despite their benign function. An interview with Jason Vuic, author of Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History (and more and more and more and more and more). From World Hum, a look at the 10 worst national cuisines. "She does a better job than Map Quest!": Wonderful hand-drawn maps from firefighters, club-hoppers, Boy Scout dads, grandmothers, and Alexander Calder. On Wheels: James Guida on the art of skateboarding. The Luckiest Photographer on Earth: For 38 years, Walter Iooss has photographed the world’s most beautiful women — from Cheryl Tiegs to Kathy Ireland, to Petra Nemcova — in exotic waterside locales for Sports Illustrated’s annual Swimsuit Issue. Michael Miller reviews The Ticking Is the Bomb by Nick Flynn. From TED, Nicholas Christakis on the hidden influence of social networks. An interview with Tara Parker-Pope, author of For Better: The Science of a Good Marriage. Wired UK goes behind the scenes with the men who deploy airstrikes. An interview with David Harvey on gentrification in Baltimore and Barcelona. Stanley Fish reviews The Living Constitution by David A. Strauss.
