Ask me anything, I've probably read about it.

I finally finished my New Yorker-thon that I started a few weeks ago, in time to start my reading challenge for 2013.  Covering all of 2011 and 2012, I read about:

• Tina Fey's recollections of writing for SNL,
• The science of "crowd crush," 
• The long-term health effects of childhood trauma, 
• The return of harbor seals to New York City, 
• Modernist "sous vide" cuisine, 
• Political assassinations in Guatemala, 
• The neurology of time perception,
• A midwestern blogger with pretensions of living the pioneer life,
• Death penalty mitigation,
• The development of Mac computers, 
• PepsiCo and the obesity epidemic, 
• Technological intricacies of animation at Pixar,
• The hype behind acai,
• The problem of insight with mental illness,
• Public resistance to vaccines, 
• Whether college is for everyone,
• A father's account of his daughter's death from a rare brain cancer, 
• Harriet Beecher Stowe's role in beginning the civil war, 
• Online dating sites,
• David Sedaris' take on learning foreign languages, 
• The devaluation of friendship by social networking sites, 
• Edible insect proponents, 
• Paleogenetics,
• Secularism as lack of God v. secularism as affirmation of the here and now, 
• Bullet-proof fashion,
• The life of the lone druggist in a former Utopian town,
• Shoplifting, 
• Norton Juster & Jules Feiffer's Phantom Tollbooth as a celebration of the liberal arts education, 
• The pros and cons of decriminalization of drug use in Portugal,
• The future of Planned Parenthood and the war on women's rights,
• When the double jeopardy rules get broken in a murder trial,
• A profile of the rapper Drake,
• The placebo effect in medical research,
• Guinnessport (the undertaking of world records), 
• The worlds oldest temple in Turkey and how it affects our view of religion,
• The psychology behind layaway purchases,
• Profiles of the creators of Portlandia,
• The ethics of teens being tried as adults and serving life without parole,
• The invisibility of the old, 
• Saving rare tortoises from extinction, 
• The brainstorming myth,
• Cyber bullying,
• Surgical face transplants,
• Training police dogs,
• Influenza pandemics,
• The case against having kids,
• Stimulating t-cells to fight cancer,
• Couch surfing as a way of travel,
• Internet dating in China,
• Working as a suspect in police lineups,
• Forensic linguistics,
• The violence of German fairytales,
• Cheating in marathons,
• Efficiency in Big Medicine,
• The reckless use of young informants by the police, 
• The negative effects of antibiotic use on the human micro biome,
• Profile of a personal shopper at Bergdorf Goodman,
• Retirement coaches, aaaaaand
• Psychochemical warfare.

Whew.  I'm ready for a nice, easy novel.