Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2009

Britannica Blog Archive: Posts from 2009

• Rare Moons (On the Occasion of the Year-Ending Blue Moon of 2009)
• Australia’s “Great Ocean Road” is Indeed Great!
• The Rolling Stones Sell Rice Krispies (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Happy New Decade, But What Do We Call the Old One?
• Tim Hart (R.I.P.) (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• The Ghost and the Oleander-Poisoned Birthday Cake (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Vic Chesnutt (R.I.P.) (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• “Consumer Sovereignty”: What a Country!
• Top 10 Travel Destinations for 2010
• A Tip of the Tam O’Shanter to Auld Rob Roy
• What’s in a Magnet?
• Matador (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Sherlock Holmes Opens Today
• A Christmas Primer
• Robert Frank’s The Americans: A Classic of Documentary Photography Turns 50
• Adriano Celentano, “Prisencolinensinainciusol” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Imagined Communities: The Polish Diaspora
• Backchanneling Rudeness, Multitasking in Action
• Australia: Unusual Words, Driving, and Flies Galore
• Opium Poppy: “The Plant of Joy” (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Laura Nyro, “Save the Country” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Throwing Computers at Health Care
• Oral Roberts, God’s BFF
• The Good Habit and Grooming Fairy (A Britannica Film Classic)
• Santa Claus (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Of Course: A Tiger Woods Marital Saga Internet Game
• Plants as 3D Art: The Amazing “Holiday Magic” Exhibit at the U.S. Botanic Garden
• Frank Zappa, “Montana” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Melbourne: “Will Work for Food!”
• An Acerbic Christmas Classic: Jean Shepherd’s A Christmas Story
• Rating Women’s Bodies: A Cultural Pastime
• Unlocking the Ocean’s Secrets, Part 4: Natural Products Discovery from Marine Life
• Can Technology Help Students Be Better Learners?
• Let’s Talk Tiger (Woods)
• A.J. Jacobs on Reading Encyclopaedia Britannica in Its Entirety
• English Whisky Tasting Tours in Norfolk
• Sago Palm (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• FAT: Top 10 Obesity Myths
• The True Grit of Hugh Glass
• The Clash, “Clampdown” (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Heroin and Drug Addiction, Part 2 (Britannica Film Classics)
• Interpreter (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Heroin and Drug Addiction, Part 1 (Britannica Film Classics)
• #1, The Mad Max Trilogy (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Epicurean Dreamlands: New York, Chicago, and Melbourne
• Tiger, and the Joys of Print Publishing
• We’re Always Multitasking, and That’s the Problem
• #2, Children of Men (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• “Haus am See” and Other German-Language Pop Hits (Great Moments in Pop Music History)
• Ah, Ignorance!
• Information Flow Demands a Compass, Not an Anchor
• Multitasking, the Solution: Understanding and Re-cultivating the Virtues of Attention
• #3, Dr. Strangelove (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Is Multitasking Evil? Or Are Most of Us Illiterate?
• Multitasking, the Effects: A Culture Less Thoughtful, Less Productive, Less Creative
• Poisonous Tears: Lily of the Valley (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• #4, The Terminator (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Multitasking, the Problem: Distracted and Dangerous
• “Climategate” and the UN Conference in Copenhagen
• The Pearl Harbor Attack Remembered (“The Back Door to War Theory”)
• #5, 12 Monkeys (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Doing Good Deeds
• Telephone Operator (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Multitasking: Boon or Bane? (A New Britannica Forum)
• #6, The Rapture (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• #7, Blade Runner (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Unlocking the Ocean’s Secrets, Part 3: Protecting Marine Life
• #8, The Time Machine (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Bob’s High-School Curriculum: Senior Year
• A Vacation from My Travels in Wollongong, Australia
• The U.S. Rich Are Getting Richer and the Poor Are Getting … Richer
• #9, The Day After Tomorrow (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• The Foxglove Killer (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Gourmet Holidays in Franche Comté
• Michael Ross to the Hall of Fame
• Bob’s High-School Curriculum: Junior Year
• #10: A Boy and His Dog (Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films)
• Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: Feb. 15, 1943):
  Special Guest: Humorist Fred Allen
• History Teacher (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• The End Is Near: Top 10 Post-Apocalyptic Films
• Happy Thanksgiving!
• The Year of the Killer Cranberries
• Thanksgiving Movies, Light & Dark (Again)
• Bob’s High-School Curriculum: Sophomore Year
• Hellebore: The Deadly Flower that Sprang From Tears (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Unlocking the Ocean’s Secrets, Part 2: The Discovery of Life in the Deep Sea
• Bob’s High-School Curriculum: Freshman Year
• Sydney So Familiar
• Figaro: New Zealand Opera
• Remembering John Kennedy (Britannica Contributor)
• Spy (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Clever Design: Radio Alarm Clock Sheets
• “Admonish”: 2009 Word of the Year
• “Walk Away Renee” (Great Moments in Pop-Music History)
• M: Morning Glory Muffins (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• More Lutherans in Ethiopia than U.S.?!
• The Fine Art of Building Castles
• Bob’s High-School Curriculum (Introduction to Blog Series)
• The Sydney Harbour Bridge Climb
• The Lovely, Poisonous Narcissus (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Unlocking the Ocean’s Secrets, Part 1: Ocean Exploration
• Interview with Artist Judy Ledgerwood
• British Columbia for 2010 Winter Olympics
• The (Editorial) Cost of Political Change: 1989 and Britannica
• Can Obama’s “Organizing for America” Evolve into a Party-Building Entity?
• Waitress (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Friday the 13th … Are You Scared (& Why)?
• Macbeth: New Zealand Opera
• L: Lentils & Chicken with Moroccan Spices (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Cat Stevens/ Yusuf’s “Peace Train” (Hot Links of the Week)
• Commercial Jetliners of the Future
• The Wal-Mart Effect: Sparking Economies the Worldover?
• Galapagos a-go-go
• Some Notes on Spinach
• Honor Fred, and All Veterans Today
• Armistice (Veterans) Day: 11/11/11
• On Average
• The Best Canal Boat Holidays
• The Yew: A Deadly Lifesafer (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Sesame Street Celebrates 40th Anniversary With … Controversy?
• Top 10 Most Popular Hotels
• Top Cuban Blogger Yoani Sanchez Detained, Beaten
• The Fall of the Berlin Wall: It Was 20 Years Ago Today
• Kristallnacht Still Reverberates
• The “Left Behind” Books
• The Renaissance Society on Regional Art
• Paris’s Most Charming Salons: Angelina (4th of 4 Posts)
• Candy Wrapper (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Paris’s Most Charming Salons: Laduree (3rd of 4 Posts)
• Independent Merchants, R.I.P.
• Angry Bears, Structuralists, Early Snow, and Snapping Fingers (Hot Links of the Week)
• Paris’s Most Charming Salons: “1728″ (2nd of 4 Posts)
• Voting on Rights is Wrong: The Real Problem With Maine
• Paris’s Most Charming Salons: Café de la Paix (1st of 4 Posts)
• Exploring the Patagonian Channels of Chile
• “Take Me Out to the Ball Game”: Harpo Marx
• Televised Football: The Role of the “Color Man”
• Socrates and His Hemlock (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Artistic, Disposable Paper Dishes (Creative Design)
• “Can’t Do” America: A Country Falling Apart, Literally
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #1, Bull Durham
• Guess: Where Am I?
• Science Up Front: Sheryl Tsai and Craig A. Townsend on Fungal Toxins and Liver Cancer
• Ladybug, Ladybug, Flying Away Into My Home
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #2, Field of Dreams
• 1st Thermonuclear Bomb Test (November 1, 1952)
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #2.5, Eight Men Out
• Walking in Circles, and Other Scary Matters (Happy Halloween!)
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #3, Pride of the Yankees
• Dexterity Specialist (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Life Below the Equator in Buenos Aires
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #4, Cobb
• Have Russia and Iran Checkmated Obama?
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #5, The Natural
• The Survival of Books
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #6, The Rookie
• U.S. Health Care Debate: A “Moral Struggle” Over Free Enterprise?
• Hitchcock Loved Algae (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #7, The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings
• Body Art, Wallpaper, & More
• Cliches Don’t Bore People; Bromides Bore People
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #8, Major League
• Baseball Fan (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Catholic Angling for Anglicans
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #9, It Happens Every Spring
• K: Keeping A Well Stocked Kitchen (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• What’s in Your Pantry? Watching Food, Inc.
• Top 10 Baseball Films: #10, Angels in the Outfield
• Top 10 Baseball Films (Series Begins Tomorrow)
• Don’t Be Fooled by the Dow: Crash Politics and America’s Dark Future
• “Balloon Boy,” the Aftermath: Could We Get a Life!
• Corn and the Vampire (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Richard Francis Burton: The Man Who Would Be King
• The Magnificence of Mount Rainier
• The Ronald McDonald Houses: “McMiracle” Begun in Philly is Now 288 Strong
• John Brown’s Body
• Pitchman (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Frigid Swimming in New Zealand
• Swine Flu, Old Puffins, and “Pretty Perversity” (Hot Links of the Week)
• J: Jambalaya, The Cheap, Fast, Good Version (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Running from Homelessness (Literally!)
• The World’s Best “Blue-and-White Towns” (3rd of 3 Posts in Series)
• If Ticket Scalping is a “Crime,” Who’s the Victim?
• Up With Middlebrow Culture! The Great Books
• The World’s Best “Blue-and-White Towns” (2nd of 3 Posts in Series)
• The Perfect Global Storm for Innovation
• The World’s Best “Blue-and-White Towns” (1st of 3 Posts in Series)
• On Herta Müller, Winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Literature
• Wolfsbane, Monkshood: The Devil in Monk’s Disguise (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Miley Cyrus: “Goodbye Twitter” … “Kids, Take a Vacation From Cyberspace”
• Night Train Across Poland (Scenes of Past and Promise, Decay and New Life)
• Shooting the Moon
• America Today: From Apple Pie to Apple iPod
• Musician (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• The Nobel Peace Prize
• Tracking McDonald’s, the Caesar Salad, and Dan Brown’s Worst Sentences (Hot Links of the Week)
• A Fun (and Healthy) Reason to Take the Stairs
• I: Irresistible Homemade Brownies (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Irving Penn, Master Photographer, Dies (1917-2009)
• Tales of Two Cities: What Chicago and Charlotte Say About the Future of America
• Minnesota Proud
• Building a Health Care System, One TV Commercial at a Time
• Maori Time in New Zealand
• Capitalism Allows This: 97.3% Gross Profit Margin (Hey, Michael: Should We Tax Your Windfall?)
• Why Don’t Scientists Care About Art? (Making a “Third Culture”)
• It Killed Lincoln’s Mother! White Snakeroot (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Scrimshaw: Maine’s Maritime Museum in Bath
• Polanski and Palin and Whoopi, Oh my! (“How Now! What News?” — Richard III)
• Opening Up the “Shut-Down Learner”
• The Beatles: Triumphant Capitalists, Pioneers of Consumerism & Globalization
• Boxer (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• The Classic “Tree Swing” Example of Production and Customer Service Gone Awry
• So Sue, the Killer T-Rex, Died of a … Sore Throat??
• The Return of Late Blight (Cause of the Irish Potato Famine)
• Happy Birthday, Groucho!
• How Netflix Can Manipulate Demand and the “Long Tail”
• Canned Hunts & Hunting Tournaments: A Celebration of Slaughter
• Cyber-Censorship and China’s “Grass-Mud Horse” Controversy
• Active Breaks in Davos, Switzerland
• School Dumps ALL Paper-based Books (“Books? Books? We Don’t Need No Steenking Books”)
• U.S.-Arab Ties Grow Stronger in Tandem with Strong U.S.-Israeli Ties
• VideoTrace 3D Modelling Using Real Video
• The Phantom Tollbooth: A Subversive Classic Hits Middle Age
• The Rye, the Witch and the Baker (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• Can a Dead Fish Be Wrong? (How Bad Judgments Are Made)
• What to Pack for 365 Days of Travel
• Lover (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Pura Vida (Trying to Really Live Life, Smell the Roses, and All That)
• Biblical-type Dust on Sydney and the Return of Pee-Wee Herman (Hot Links for September 25, 2009)
• Traditional Universities Irrelevant by 2020?
• H: Ham, Broccoli & Cheese Quiche (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Baseball: America’s Game, and the World’s
• Science Up Front: Microneedles, an Update From Mark Prausnitz
• Top 7 Chocolate Destinations in the World
• Germania 1, Rome 0; 2,000 Years Ago
• A Taste of Heaven: A Guide to Food and Drink by Monks and Nuns
• U.S. College Classes at Midnight … How’s It Working Out?
• The Castor Bean, The Umbrella Murder (Toxic Tuesdays: A Weekly Guide to Poison Gardens)
• 1 Year Later: Lessons From the Great Economic Panic (If Only We’re Listening)
• Why Study History? For the Parties!
• Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: March 1, 1943):
  Special Guest: U.S. Congressman and Tank Commander Will Rogers, Jr.
• Paperback Writer (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Toxic Tuesdays: A Guide to Poison Gardens (A New Weekly Blog Series)
• Of Darwin, Johnson, Jefferson, Somalia, and Swine Flu (Hot Links for September 18, 2009)
• Samuel Johnson: Entrepreneurial Genius
• G: Ground Beef Wellington (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Robotic Gas Pumpers
• The Legend of Gram Parsons
• design e2 – Legislating Green Urban Environments, from Germany to Chicago
• Chastity Belts, Mummies, and More: The Semmelweis (Medical) Museum of Budapest
• The Purple Prose of Space (The Lensman Series by E.E. “Doc” Smith)
• The Future World of Work: Flexible and Decentralized (A Gen Xer’s Perspective)
• Elephants and Festivals in Sri Lanka
• At 92, Dame Vera Lynn Has Britain’s No. 1 Record
• Pensioner Defies the EU — Stockpiles Bright, Traditional Lightbulbs
• A Short History of South Carolina
• “I’m Singin’ in the lluvia…” (in the Monteverde Cloud Forest, Costa Rica)
• Constitutional Scholar (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• “You Lie!” Why the U.S. Needs a Presidential “Question Time” Like the Brits
• A Tie Between 9/11 and Explorer Robert Peary? Putin a Former Terrorist? (Hot Links for Friday, September 11)
• F: Fresh Berry Sauce (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Science Up Front: David Gamm on Stem Cells and Progress Toward New Treatments for Eye Diseases
• Are You Ready for Some Football? (And the New Rule Changes?)
• Getting Back to Roots: Alex Haley’s Epochal Novel Roots Turns 33
• Montezuma, Costa Rica: A Room With a View (and Ants)
• Essaouira (Morocco) and the Villa de l’O (A Luxury Boutique Hotel)
• The Long, Slow Death of U.S. Trains
• The Beatles Remastered
• Most Expensive U.S. ZIP Codes (And “90210″ Is Not #1)
• A Recovery? Maybe. (But the Winners and Losers are Starkly Emerging)
• U2 +Eucharist = U2charist
• U.S. Congress Resumes; Let Us Pray
• Drummer (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Palma de Mallorca
• Costa Rican Rainforest: Iguanas & Monkeys & Snakes, Oh My!
• E: English Muffin Bread (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Eye Candy Caddies (“Making Golf Gorgeous”)
• Travel Around Asia with the Wagamama Menu
• Saying Adios to Elmer Kelton, Western Writer Extraordinaire
• Russia Commissions First New Opera House Since the Czars (The New Mariinsky Theatre)
• Vienna’s Criminal Museum (Kriminalmuseum)
• Even in Health Care, Reading is Fundamental
• An Interview with Controversial Inventor Ray Kurzweil about the Documentary Transcendent Man, on the Future of Technology
• Science Up Front: Jay Shendure and Sarah Ng on the Detection of Inherited Disease
• eBay and the Culture of Buying
• The Never-Ending Case of Jack the Ripper
• How to Subvert the Information Age
• Winemaker (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Holy Reliquaries, Homemade and Otherwise
• D: Desperation Dinners (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• The Return of the Mountain Lion: The Wild Confronts the Tame
• Got Coffee? (The Bean Around the World)
• How Flowering Plants Become Super Plants
• Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)
• The Changing Face of Cruise Holidays
• The First Oil Well (150th Anniversary of the Birth of the Oil Industry)
• Happy Birthday, Van Johnson!
• The Concerns of Mankind
• Afghanistan is Not Vietnam!
• Top 10 Facts You Need to Know About Eating Disorders
• Congratulations: Geoff “Double G” Gallegos Wins Britannica Film Contest
• Obama Needs a Spine: The President’s Embarrassing Response to the Libyan Controversy
• Reader’s Digest and Just Plain Digestion
• Diving, Washing, and Playing My Way through Turkey (Memoirs of an ‘Aubergine’)
• Monkeys on the Rampage in India
• Bicycle Repairman (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #1: Midnight Cowboy
• Gun-Totin’ Politics in America: All Over but the Shouting?
• Hawaii: A Pineapple Republic on the 50th Anniversary of Statehood
• C: Chicken Pesto & Couscous Salad (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #2: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
• Science Up Front: Stephen M. Rich on the Discovery of Malaria’s Origin
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #3: Easy Rider
• Lou Dobbs, Glen Beck: Threats? or Menaces?
• How We See Marrakech
• What Killed Mozart?
• The Death of Federico Garcia Lorca (Time for Spain to Face History)
• Voluntourism: Buzzword, yes; Rewarding, absolutely
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #4: The Wild Bunch
• The Merchant of Prejudice: Shakespeare as a Teachable Moment
• Remembering Woodstock: That Festival of Peace, Love, and … Consumer Capitalism
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #5: Z
• Inside the Denver Art Museum with Daniel Libeskind
• Taxman (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Apocalypse Now: A Classic Film and Its Sources, 30 Years On
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #6: On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
• B: Bacon, Egg & Cheese Biscuit Cups (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• Les Paul (1915-2009), R.I.P. (American Legend)
• “Banksy versus Bristol Museum” (The Hit Art Exhibit)
• The Replacement Matrix of Life
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #7: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
• Working as an ‘Extra’ on 24 (Notes From Los Angeles)
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #8: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
• The Health-Care Debate (a/k/a “Protest Theater”)
• Is it Still Safe to Fly? (Airline Safety Declining, but Still Good)
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #9: Alice’s Restaurant
• Remembering Carl Perkins: Blue Suede Shoes in Heaven
• The Virtues of Shop Class (and Hands-on Learning and Education)
• Obama, the “Birthers,” and a Blatant Plug
• Top 10 Films of 1969:
  #10: Where Eagles Dare
• The Paper House (Literally!) of Rockport, Massachusetts
• Psychologist (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• 1969 Film Series & Contest:
  Top 10 Films of that Memorable Year
• Channeling Julia Child: Julie & Julia, Chickeny Chickens, and the Art of French Cooking
• A: Apple-Cinnamon Stuffed French Toast (The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z)
• The Frugal Kitchen – Recipes A to Z (A New Weekly Blog Series)
• Cable News Ends ‘Feud’ and Grows Up. As If
• Zeppelins, Past and Present
• Shanghaied in Savannah: The “Pirates’ House”
• Tips for Beating the Summer Cold (Sun, Sea and Sore Throats)
• “Intensely Dutch”: New Exhibit at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
• Sarah Palin Might Write a Book
• The Geopolitics (and Future) of the Internet
• CSI: Cambridge (The Henry Louis Gates Affair and the Media)
• Stereovision Table (Clever Design)
• Information, Please! (Classic Broadcast: Nov. 1, 1938):
  Special Guest: Gamester Oswald Jacoby
• Runway Model and Newscaster (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• The Carnivorous Venus Flytrap
• Milton Friedman (Happy Birthday!) Destroys Phil Donahue
• Summer Holidays at Québec’s Mont Tremblant
• Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: Remembering the Poet of the Skies
• America, 2033: What the Country Might Look Like
• Fancy a Fika? (Notes From Sweden)
• Clever Design: The Oldie but Goodie Mobile Phone
• Diana and the Cult of Celebrity
• If a Giant Comet or Asteroid Collided with Earth
  (“Nowhere to run to, Baby, nowhere to hide.”)
• Havana’s International-Style Restaurants Hardly Measure Up
• Confidence-Building Time Needed for Mideast Peace
• The Air-Sickness Bag and Toilet Fee: Is the Airline Industry’s “Cheap Flight Revolution” Worth the Cost?
• What Hybrid Cars and Light Beer Have in Common
• Understanding “Cap and Trade”; or Not
• The “Dwarf Garden” of Salzburg, Austria
• Gay Rights and a Tale of Two Churches: The Episcoal vs. the Anglican Church in North America
• Artist (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Toward a New Future of “Whatever” (Technology and Personal Democracy)
• Clever Design: Backrest Coat Hangers
• School Choice: We’re Already Choosing “Rationally”
• Chicago’s Innovative “Aqua Tower” Construction Progress
• The Future of the Book: Digital Books Down Under
• 9 Things NOT To Do When In a New Country
• What the U.S. & Michael Jackson Have in Common
• Pitchfork Music Festival: Day Two
• Elbert Hubbard, the Mild Rebel
• The Paris Market of Savannah, Georgia
• Pitchfork Music Festival: Day One
• Night Tour of Perth’s Infamous Fremantle Prison
• Neuroeconomics: Studying How We Make Decisions
• How Birders Could Lead the U.S. Economic Recovery
• Obama’s $12 Billion for U.S. Community Colleges: Borderline Boondoggle
• Remembering the Apollo Moon Landing, 40 Years Ago
• Forty Years After Apollo 11: Why No “Next Big Step” Since Then?
• “The Ledge,” at Chicago’s Sears (Willis) Tower: Stepping Out with a New Perspective
• Table Dancer (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Walter Cronkite, R.I.P.
• Should Neutering Pets Be Mandatory?
• Dispatches From the Communist Mainland (Notes From China)
• Cezanne & Degas (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• Clever Design: Coats for Your Carafe, “Teashirts” for Your Tea
• Tom Watson at the Top of Leaderboard at the British Open
• William of Ockham and How to Open a Banana
• Berlin, a City on the Move
• “The British Open” (by Colin Montgomerie, Britannica Contributor)
• Frans Van Mieris (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• Britannica is a “Superbrand”
• Abbas Has Become the Obstacle to Peace
• Arianna Huffington, Happy Birthday!
• 1959: Getting Control of Rock ‘n’ Roll
• Museu Chacara do Céu (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• Nitrogen Triiodide: The Explosive You Can Detonate With Just A Feather (or Your Breath)
• World’s Oldest Bible Hits Cyberspace
• Macau: Las Vegas of the East
• Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• Obama Owes Hondurans an Apology (A Case of Obama’s Pinochet?)
• T.S. Eliot Rejects George Orwell’s Animal Farm, 65 Years Ago
• Beating a Tattoo
• Vincent van Gogh (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• The Skulls of Belgrade Cathedral (Szentendre, Hungary)
• Pianist (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Michael Jackson & BDD: “Body Dysmorphic Disorder”
• Safari & Spa Holiday in Namibia
• Cezanne (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• Planning a Staycation? (Merriam-Webster Adds 100 New Words to its Dictionary)
• Can Calorie Restriction Increase One’s Life Span?
• Remembering Buckminster Fuller: Practical Utopian
• Stradivarius (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Daily Blog Series)
• The Cleverness of Crows
• The Evolution of Evolutionary Thought, and The Dangerous Territory It Skirts
• Too Smart to Fail
• A Pioneer of Infotainment (Roone Arledge Remembered)
• “The Two Cultures” Fifty Years On: Some and None
• Caravaggio (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A New Blog Series)
• Live Bait Vending Machines (Markets In Everything)
• About Fixing the Economy: Obama, Weak; GOP, Clueless; the Masses: Distracted (by Michael Jackson, et. al)
• A Valedictory for Bernie Madoff
• The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Two-Week Blog Series)
• Couchsurfing the World
• Improve Your Sex Life!
• What Makes a Good Fourth-Grade Reader? Knowledge.
• Looted Iraqi Artifacts (FBI’s Top 10 Art Thefts: A Two-Week Blog Series)
• FBI’s Top 10 Art Crimes (A New Two-Week Blog Series)
• “Home Green Home”: Affordable “Near Zero Net Energy” Homes
• Lady Liberty’s Crown Reopens: Visiting the Statue of Liberty
• Writer & Editor: The Case of the Declaration of Independence (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• The “First Globals”: The Emergence of a “Global Generation” and What It Means
• Exploring the Jewel of Asia – Bangkok
• The White House Garden
• “Cousin” Karl Malden, R.I.P.
• The Curse of the Talking Heads: Where’s Humility and a Sense of Fallibility?
• Tilted Soup Plate (Creative Design)
• U.S. Male-Female SAT Math Scores: What Accounts for the Gap?
• E.O. Wilson’s Ants & Harvard’s Museum of Natural History
• Top Ten Beaches in the World
• Mike Tyson: Fascinating, Appealing, and Crazy as a Loon (Happy Birthday!)
• A Cultural Autopsy of Michael Jackson
• Fear of Flying Solo: How a Single Girl Can Travel the World
• Imperialism and those Pesky Foreign Entanglements
• Why More Grieving for Michael Jackson than Farrah Fawcett?
• The Use of Human Drugs on Animals: The Pros and Cons
• Katharine Hepburn: Remembering a Film Icon
• Body Art, Wallpaper, & More
• Vigilante Justice: Elderly Gang Tortures Financial Planner Who Lost Them Millions
• Bellboy (The Britannica Blog “Guide” to Careers)
• Michael Jackson’s Best Dance Moves
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• #7: Thomas Jefferson’s Embargo (Top 10 Mistakes by U.S. Presidents)
• Why Obama Won’t Have an FDR Honeymoon
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• #8: How Carter Lectured, Not Led (Top 10 Mistakes by U.S. Presidents)
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• Glamorous Excess: Faye Dunaway (Happy Birthday!)
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• #9: Deport Blacks to Santo Domingo (Top 10 Mistakes by U.S. Presidents)
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• Liberal Media Bias (The Worst of the Week)
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• Glamorous Excess: Diane Keaton (Happy Birthday!)
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• Forecast #1: Everything You Say and Do Will Be Recorded by 2030
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