From Thought Catalog, Noah Cicero on Beatniks and the roots of hipsters. BP's Shock Waves: Matt Taibbi on how the oil giant's catastrophic spill in the Gulf could trigger another financial meltdown. Some small businesses are struggling to get credit, but that’s the least of their problems — those that survive the recession will be stronger for it and lead the economy’s recovery. In Iraq, Western clocks, but Middle Eastern time: Patience is a strategy in a region that knows the American attention span is limited. Muslims around the world could soon be setting their watches to a giant clock in Saudi Arabia — could "Mecca Time" really replace Greenwich Mean Time? A look at how 250 years of progress gave us the most complicated clock ever. From The Distributive Review, in the early years of the twentieth century, the English Catholic writers Hilaire Belloc and Gilbert and Cecil Chesterton derived a distinctive political philosophy called Distributism from the social teachings of the Catholic Church; a look at the mistake about Distributism; and is Distributism agrarianism? The United States Mint releases the latest coin in the ongoing Presidential $1 Coin Program, this time featuring our 15th President, James Buchanan (1857-61). Sexual selection is, for lack of a better term, a sexy concept — but notwithstanding the inevitable press which the theory gets, and its centrality to several popular science books, the main action in the area of sexual selection is in the academic literature.
