CULTURE

[|All the shengnu ladies]--Accomplished Chinese women are a new "leftover" generation: Too successful to marry, but disrespected without a man

[|Try the Santorum--Santorum cocktail taste test]

[|How Not To Apologize--Rush Limbaugh’s statement on Sandra Fluke was a textbook example of what not to say.]

[|When the Facts Don't Matter--Same-sex marriage isn't hurting anyone. So why are so many people still afraid of it?]

[|Dictionary of American Regional English reaches final volume]

[|Bathed in smog--Beijing's pollution could cut 5 years off lifespan, expert says]

[|The Most Popular Chinese Movie of All Time--It’s a Western. It’s a comedy. It’s a critique of corruption. It’s a send-up of the Chinese movie industry. It’s going to confuse the hell out of Americans.]

[|The Power of Habit--How the history of toothpaste explains why you can’t lose weight.]

NYT: [|One Is the Quirkiest Number--The Freedom, and Perils, of Living Alone]

[|Linsanity vs. Lindsanity]: THG Tale of the Tape! [|The 25 Best Jeremy Lin Signs We've Seen So Far] [|No More Chinks in the Armor--The Jeremy Lin controversy suggests it’s time to retire the phrase for good.]
 * Linsanity:**

[|The answer to the most famous unanswerable fantasy riddle]

[|Catchphrase Executioner-Bad sex jargon, horrible “occupy” jokes, and other terrible things we said this year.]

The Atlantic: Study of the Day: [|There Are No Winners in an Overcrowded Mall]

NYT: [|Crusaders Take Page, and Outfits, From Comics]

[|Why women need fat]--Evolution shows that women's dieting beliefs aren't just unrealistic -- they're unnatural. An expert explains

Atlantic: [|How Walmart Is Changing China]

Atlantic: [|All the Single Ladies]

NYT: [|From Finland, an Intriguing School-Reform Model]

NYT: [|As Facebook Aims at Millions of Users, Some are Content to Sit Out]

[|The Effect Effect--Daniel Kahneman and the language of popular psychology.]

[|The loud American I swore I’d never be]--When I moved from Canada people mocked me for my "aboots." I promised I wouldn't change. I was wrong

[|The New Full-Frontal--Has Pubic Hair in America Gone Extinct?]

[|More college women speak in creaks, thanks to pop stars]

NYT: [|Online Learning, Personalized--Khan Academy Blends Its YouTube Approach with Classrooms]

[|Why people with a sweet tooth are just generally sweeter people]

[|Chinese Smog Disaster Rouses Chinese Media]

NYT: [|The Hoarder in You--It’s Time to Say Goodbye to All That Stuff]

NYT: [|Picking Brand Names in China is a Business Itself]

[|Being too polite to your waitress may cost you money]

NYT: [|Stuff That Defines Us]--History of the World in 100 Objects from the British Museum [|BBC History of the World Homepage] [|BBC History of the World Podcasts]

[|Can 17-Year-Olds Vote in Mississippi?] The weirder implications of Mississippi’s anti-abortion amendment declaring fetuses to be people.

[|America Needs Broadly Educated Citizens, Even Anthropologists]--The president of Arizona State University explains why Florida Gov. Rick Scott’s emphasis on practical education is short-sighted.

[|Sophie's World - An Eventful Affair with a Vixen] Winner of the Fritz Pölking Award 2011

[|Bitter Brew--I opened a charming neighborhood coffee shop. Then it destroyed my life.]

[[http://io9.com/5850293/10-words-you-might-think-came-from-science-but-are-really-from-science-fiction|10 Words You Might Think Came from Science (But Are Really From Science Fiction  )]]

[|There’s the Wrong Way and Jacques Pépin’s Way]

Endangered Dragon:[|As Its Economy Sprints Ahead, China’s People Are Left Behind]

[|My Family’s Experiment in Extreme Schooling]**:** Three American siblings attend an experimental school in Moscow where instruction is only in Russian and classes are videotaped to improve teaching.

[|Go Slow To Go Fast--Why highways move more swiftly when you force cars to crawl along at 55 mph.]

[|South Korean airport fights drug smugglers with cloned dogs]

[|Ahmadinejad's Nightmare--Does homosexuality exist in every human society?] Most of the article is about secluded societies without the concept of homosexuality.

[|America's secular revival]: Five signs that, despite the GOP's efforts, religion's impact on U.S. politics will soon decline

[|No evidence that single-sex schools are better than coed] Lots of disagreement with the article in the comments section

NYT Op-Ed: [|If It Feels Right ...]

NYT: [|Allowing Teenage Boys to Love Their Friends]

NYT Opinion: [|The Trouble With Homework] Interesting. So how much homework do our students do, and how can we make them do more productive homework?

NYT Opinion: [|Delay Kindergarten at Your Child’s Peril]

NYT Op-Ed: [|Is Junk Food Really Cheaper?]

Street Photographer Suggests There's No Such Thing as Unique

[|China's soaring costs could help American jobs]

[|The After-Wife--Pat Robertson says Alzheimer's can justify divorce because your spouse is "gone." Is he right]?

[|Who Killed 3-D]? A box-office whodunit.

[|The Question-Driven Life]: Interesting bio or profile example

[|Unsavory Culinary Elitism]: Could have students learn who the people are and what their shows are like

[|The Kids Are Not All Right]: students can examine how to make the support stronger for this article / look for logical fallacies like begging the question

[|A vegetarian's guide to talking to carnivores]--Updated: If you decide to quit eating meat, you'll need to brace yourself for these absurd arguments

[|Who's Afraid of Digital Natives? Let's not get intimidated by kids and their Internet savvy.]

[|'Psychic Benefits' and the NBA Lockout]--The author of The Tipping Point explains why owning a basketball franchise has always been a bad business — and ought to stay that way

[|That's So Mysto--What makes slang stick?]

[|Print vs. Online--The ways in which old-fashioned newspapers still trump online newspapers.]

[|How to Beat the High Costs of Dialing Abroad]

[|All the President's Memes--Why Obama gets so much love on the Internet.]

[|As Chinese Visit Taiwan, the Cultural Influence Is Subdued]

[|How the hot dog became the most American food--Served everywhere from Coney Island to the FDR White House, the wiener has come to symbolize our way of life]

[|Not your imagination--Kids today really are less creative, study says]

[|Dog becomes local celebrity for his math skills]

[|Mass grave reveals 1,000 year old Viking massacre]

[|Our favorite summer foods, explained]

[|The dirty words we dare not say--My parents instilled in me a bone-deep hatred of gross terminology. It makes being a grown-up tricky sometimes]

[|How Was The Joker Potty Trained? Mental Health Experts Psychoanalyze Batman Villains]

[|Being Tony Plush--Finding redemption through Nyjer Morgan's gentleman alter ego.]

[|What a Copycat]--Why do we call imitators "cats"? Why not monkeys?

[|Lying is part of child's development, study confirms]

[|Half of men would dump woman who got fat]: But only 20 percent of women surveyed said they'd ditch a dude who gained weight [] [|www.askmen.com/specials/great_female_survey]

Get a Room! [|Is Airbnb a fad, or will it revolutionize the way you travel]?

[|Experts Baffled by Mysterious Underground Chambers]

[|Why no one hears the ocean in a sea shell]

[|The Doctor and the Pomegranate:] [|Antioxidants don't work, but no one wants to hear it.]

[|Go Ahead, Eat Chocolate for Breakfast:] [|Why the lawsuit against Nutella is bunk.]

[|Can a Playground Be Too Safe?]

[|New for Aspiring Doctors, the People Skills Test]

[|John Next Door]

[|Are porn watchers the same as johns]? A new study conflates paying for prostitutes with indulging in mainstream and legal sexual entertainment

[|If You Want To Outlaw Prostitution, You're Going To Have To Do Better Than This]

[|Today in Hollywood-Induced Sex Panics]

[|A New Gauge to See What’s Beyond Happiness]

[|Speaking Up in Class, Silently, Using Social Media]

[|Now you can buy groceries using augmented reality, in South Korean subway stations]

[|Sophie’s Choice and Other Choice Choices]

[|Men Are From Cuddle, Women Are From Penis--] [|A new study supposedly says women want sex but men want cuddling. Don't believe it.]

[|Read My Lisp--] [|Is Michele Bachmann's husband gay? Don't trust gaydar to settle the question.]

[|Questioning the Inca Paradox--] [|Did the civilization behind Machu Picchu really fail to develop a written language?]

[|Which Is Worse for a Child's Development—Exposure to Graphic Sex or Appalling Violence?]

[|Art that turns our childhood stories into dark, twisted fun]

[|The Bilingual Advantage]: Interview with Ellen Bialystok. By CLAUDIA DREIFUS: Among other benefits, the regular use of two languages appears to delay the onset of Alzheimer’s disease symptoms.

[|Nicholas D. Kristof: Our Fantasy Nation?]: If Republicans seek a country with low taxes, little regulation and traditional family values, I have the perfect place for them. Body armor suggested.

[|Your Name Impacts How Others Judge You] [|What Does Your Name Tell Others About You?]

[|Liking Is for Cowards. Go for What Hurts.]: NY Times op-ed.

[|Coaching and Much More for Chinese Students Looking to U.S.]

Cloud Girlfriend: [|I’m Not Real, but Neither Are You]

[|Superbrands' success fuelled by sex, religion and gossip]