Saturday, March 19, 2011

The Prince William and Miss Catherine Middleton Charitable Gift Fund

St. James Palace

Japan's Shattered Mirror

After centuries of natural and human disasters, the nation has learned that what comes down can be rebuilt.
By IAN BURUMA
Wall Street Journal

Current Status at Fukushima Daiichi

Workers are continuing to struggle to prevent a nuclear disaster at Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant. Here's the current status of each of the 6 reactors.
Wall Street Journal

Why Do We Let Them Dress Like That?

Women of a liberated generation wrestle with their eager-to-grow-up daughters—and their own pasts
By JENNIFER MOSES
Wall Street Journal

Don’t Call Me, I Won’t Call You

By PAMELA PAUL
New York Times

Friday, March 18, 2011

Amid Nuclear Fears, Some Facts

By JONATHAN D. ROCKOFF, MIHO INADA and RON WINSLOW
Wall Street Journal

The Ultimate Reality Show

The royal wedding is expected to command the biggest audience in TV history. Inside the explosion of movies, talk show coverage and princess shows; 'blue-blood boot camp'
By AMY CHOZICK and CECILIE ROHWEDDER
Wall Street Journal

The Speech Accent Archive

George Mason University

The ever-changing scene of hotel room amenities

By Nancy Trejos
Washington Post

Plastic: Too Good to Throw Away

By SUSAN FREINKEL
New York Times

Thursday, March 17, 2011

ScienceCasts: Super Moon



A Clever End Run Around the Movie-Streaming Gremlins

By DAVID POGUE
New York times

Visa will let people use plastic to pay one another

(Associated Press)
Seattle Times

So Who Gets the Armrest?

Ethics and Etiquette for Bad Behavior, Boors and Stinky Food In Coach at 30,000 Feet
By SCOTT MCCARTNEY

Satellite Photos of Japan, Before and After the Quake and Tsunami

By ALAN McLEAN, KEVIN QUEALY, MATTHEW ERICSON and ARCHIE TSE. Before/after slider by JASON ALVICH.
New York Times

Wednesday, March 16, 2011

How a Reactor Shuts Down and What Happens in a Meltdown

New York Times

Reactor Monitor

Wall Street Journal

Why AT&T is hunting down broadband service hogs

Broadband service through AT&T DSL is no longer unlimited. There will soon be a 150 to 250 gigabyte monthly cap on broadband service.
By Matthew Lynley
Christian Science Monitor

Feel Locked Out? Nothing to Tackle? Well, Try Opera

By KAREN CROUSE
New York Times

New Green Police Audi Super Bowl Promo HD



Tuesday, March 15, 2011

Ides of March: What's an ide anyway? The whole sooth.

Ides of March: What exactly is an ide anyway? An what does it have to do with Julius Caesar?
By Eoin O'Carroll
Christian Science Monitor

How Nuclear Reactors Work ... And the Dangers When They Don't

By BEN CASSELMAN And REBECCA SMITH
Wall Street Journal

Are Israeli Settlers Human?

A family of five slaughtered in their beds. Some Palestinians call it 'natural.'
By BRET STEPHENS

A Century of Meat

New York Times

Is Happiness Overrated?

Study Finds Physical Benefits to Some (Not All) Good Feelings
By SHIRLEY S. WANG

Prisoner Recidivism

Bureau of Justice Statistics

Monday, March 14, 2011

2011 Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

Google Crisis Response

What we pay for in a gallon of regular gasoline

U. S. Energy Information Administration

Online readership and ad revenue overtake newspapers

Reporting by Jennifer Saba, editing by Maureen Bavdek)
Reuters

Happy Pi Day!

USA.gov

Poker Bots Invade Online Gambling

By GABRIEL DANCE
New York Times

The Creature Connection

By NATALIE ANGIER
New York Times

Nuclear Overreactions

Modern life requires learning from disasters, not fleeing all risk.
Wall Street Journal

China's Fiscal Legerdemain

Mountains of bad loans have been shifted within the banking system, putting off the day of reckoning
By EDWARD CHANCELLOR
Wall Street Journal

Sunday, March 13, 2011

The Digital Pileup

By SHELLEY PODOLNY
New York Times

Making a 21st-Century Hamburger

Wall Street Journal

How Shifting Plates Caused the Earthquake and Tsunami in Japan

By JOE BURGESS, JONATHAN CORUM, AMANDA COX, MATTHEW ERICSON, XAQUÍN G.V., ALAN McLEAN, TOMOEH MURAKAMI-TSE, HAEYOUN PARK, GRAHAM ROBERTS, AMY SCHOENFELD, ARCHIE TSE, JOE WARD and JEREMY WHITE
New York Times

Map of the Damage From the Japanese Earthquake

By MATTHEW BLOCH, AMANDA COX, BILL MARSH, ALAN McLEAN, TOMOEH MURAKAMI TSE, HAEYOUN PARK and AMY SCHOENFELD
New York Times

Green Development? Not in My (Liberal) Backyard

By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
New York Times