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There’s a lot to like about Barack Obama. (Long Larissa MacFarquhar profile.) gulfstream/2368

This is No Game: “You will never know what it’s like to work on a farm until your hands are raw, just so people can have fresh marijuana. Or … gulfstream/1924

Are take-away pizza menus good design, or bad? “The fact is, pizza flyers set up precisely the right expectations about the product and the service: … gulfstream/1929

What’s known about yawning. (Seems like not so very much.) gulfstream/2079

Andrew Sullivan wants to call the view that “religious faith is so important that it must also have a precise political agenda” Christianist (parallels … gulfstream/2085

On the origin and revival of Matthew Carter’s font Georgia. gulfstream/2104

Things I didn’t know: there is still Shaker community, though there are only four of them left. Their website explains why they share all their goods: … gulfstream/2129

Jim Holt’s review of two books critical of string theory. (Good overview of the theory and its weaknesses.) I would’ve thought that two books on string … gulfstream/2163

The ethically troubling sources of gold, chocolate, cell phones. The Economist also has a nice account of an 18th Century British sugar boycott that caused … gulfstream/2207

CIA account of two CIA operatives shot down over China on their first mission in 1952, and held captive for 20 years. gulfstream/2270