Know Your Muslim Veils

http://www.apologeticsindex.org/505-muslim-veils-hijab-burqa

Careful What You Wish For

http://financiallyfit.yahoo.com/finance/article-109401-4997-3-dream-prizes-you-cant-afford-to-win?ywaad=ad0035

Top 50 Restaurants

http://www.cnn.com/2010/LIVING/04/27/fifty.best.restaurants/index.html

Questions of the Day: Post-Eating Activities

How long should you wait after eating before taking a hot bath/shower and vice versa? How long should you wait after eating until doing rigorous excercise?

Quote of the Day: How Government Works

"If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulat it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

-Ronald Reagan

The 4% Rule

http://finance.yahoo.com/focus-retirement/article/109370/time-to-replace-the-4-rule?mod=fidelity-managingwealth

Dangers to Planet Largely Invisible

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_sci_earth_day_issues

The World's Most Expensive Stuff

http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/109345/the-worlds-most-expensive-stuff-2010?mod=family-love_money

Falling Out of Love

"Just as we often fall in love with the little traits or quirks of our partner—a crooked smile, a goofy laugh or the way he or she fawns over a pet—we can fall out of love over seemingly small things."

Honey, Do You Have To...?
by Elizabeth Bernstein
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748703757504575194040423167792.html#mod=todays_us_personal_journal

How Much is a Coral Reef Worth?

How Much is a Coral Reef Worth?
by Christopher Beam
http://www.slate.com/id/2250807/

An Interactive Map of Tea Party Events on Meetup.com

http://www.slate.com/id/2251029/

Why Are Airlines Always Merging?

Why Are Airlines Always Merging?
by Daniel Engber
http://www.slate.com/id/2251098/

Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well in School?

"Kids who got paid all year under a very elegant scheme performed significantly better on their standardized reading tests at the end of the year. Statistically speaking, it was as if those kids had spent three extra months in school, compared with their peers who did not get paid."

Should Kids Be Bribed To Do Well In School
by Amanda Ripley
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1978589,00.html

Does a Man's Smile Mean the Same Thing as a Women's?

"In women, smiling signals warmth (trustworthiness cues), which attracts fewer and more intimate relationships, whereas in men, smiling signals confidence and lack of self-doubt (capacity cues), which attracts numerous, less-intimate relationships.

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/does-a-mans-smile-mean-the-same-thing-as-a-wo

Infograph: Where US Workers Come From

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/04/07/us/20090407-immigration-occupation.html

Do Teachers Grade More Harshly When Using Red Pens?

"People using red pens to correct essays marked more errors and awarded lower grades than people using blue pens."

http://www.bakadesuyo.com/do-teachers-grade-more-harshly-when-they-use

10 Simple Google Search Tricks

http://www.nytimes.com/external/gigaom/2010/04/02/02gigaom-10-simple-google-search-tricks-58674.html?ex=1286856000&en=419dbe0b98920044&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=NYT-E-I-NYT-E-AT-0414-L11

2010 Banned Words

"Lake Superior State University on January 1, 2010 released their 35th annual List of Words Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness."

The Complete List:

1. Shovely-ready
2. Transparent/transparency
3. Czar
4. Tweet
5. App
6. Sexting
7. Friend, as a verb
8. Teachable moment
9. In these economic times...
10. Stimulus
11. Toxic assets
12. Too big to fail
13. Bromance
14. Chillaxin'
15. Obama, as a prefix

Say No More: 2010's Banned Words
by Dan Fletcher
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1951248,00.html

Cash Rewards For Weight Loss

"Companies, in an effort to cut overall helath care costs, have started offering everything from gift cards to cruises to employees who shed excess pounds. And the trend is now extending to the general public as a new website, HealthyWage.com, teams with corporate sponsors to give cash prizes to obese participants who drop enough weight in a year."

This Year's Hottest Diet? Cash Rewards For Weight Loss
by Carolyn Sayre
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1950896,00.html

Sea of Viral Videos

"Falling behind is the permanent state of being online. There's too much stuff. No one can see it all...or should...I've discovered that a nice trick for forwarding [memes] is to preface everything with 'I'm sure you've already seen this.' Even if you're sure the recipient hasn't seen it - even if you personally just made it. It's better to flatter a friend's media-consuming prowess than to risk receiving the one-word response in return: 'OLD.'"

Wild Viral World Leaves Plenty of Viewers Behind
by Monica Hesse
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/04/AR2010020404396.html

Tips to Get Good Sleep

http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/health/tips-to-get-good-sleep-1229593/

Why Do People Ask Questions at Public Events?

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2010/03/why-do-people-ask-questions-at-public-events.html

Love Motels in Taiwan

http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/china-and-its-neighbors/091230/taiwan-love-motels

Graph: Where Does Foreign Aid Go?

http://chrisblattman.com/2010/03/16/graph-of-the-day-where-the-foreign-aid-goes-2/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+chrisblattman+%28Chris+Blattman%29

Buy a Job Reference

http://www.buyajobreference.com/index.html

Charting Democrats vs. Republicans

http://blog.okcupid.com/index.php/2010/03/30/the-democrats-are-doomed-or-how-a-big-tent-can-be-too-big/

Lava Cuisine

"A group of Icelandic chefs this week offered customers a unique gastronomical experience: a gourmet meal cooked over hot lava and served near an ongoing volcanic eruption, one of the chefs said Wednesday."

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hCn4X8mvIOJeNEIgNDhmTL5GrPig?index=0

Tsukiji Traders Struggle to Survive

http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201004050361.html

Duke Fluke

Why are so many Blue Devils awesome in college and awful in the pros?

The Duke Fluke
Josh Levin
http://www.slate.com/id/2249539/

Can Staring at an Ipad Hurt Your Vision?

Also discusses computers in general...

Apple on Your Eyes
by Jeremy Singer-Vine
http://www.slate.com/id/2249406/

Interactive Map: Tracking Taxi Flows in NYC

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/04/02/nyregion/taxi-map.html?th&emc=th

On China's Jewish Enclave

China's Ancient Jewish Enclave
by Matthew Fishbane
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/travel/04journeys.html?nl=travel&emc=tda3

RapeLay & Japan

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/04/02/rapelay.japan/

The Envy List

See what people at think tanks, trade associations, labor groups, and others make...(pay subscription)

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/cs_20100403_9562.php

Quote of the Week: Reconciliation

"Don't try passing reconciliation at home, kids."

-Lawrence O'Donnell on passing the health reconciliation bill

Quote of the Day: Spies

"A good spy has a face that a waiter would forget."

-William Colby, the CIA's chief during the post-Watergate 1970s

Tips for Buying a Car

http://autos.yahoo.com/articles/autos_content_landing_pages/1380/car-dealer-scams-to-avoid/