- 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.
