"25 July 2008: Weekend"

Ed. note: As you can see, we're trying something new for Friday afternoons. The amount of politically correct professors in each discipline. How making decisions exhausts your brain. Kyoto protocol's emphasis on pollution control doesn't address the investment required to make clean energy viable Reporter David Carr remembers his many dark years by interviewing family and friends. Les Paul's time has been pretty much any decade since the 1920s. Pitchfork's "Overlooked Records 2008." Video: Tarantino's Mind. How the uncanny similarity of joy and despair's expressions appealed to Darwin. Criminologists investigate the causes of drastic crime increases in mid-sized cities like Memphis, sparking controversy with what they find. North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.... [read full story]