“Manufacturing Taste” by Sasha Chapman | The Walrus | September 2012 (If you love mac & cheese…also a nice history of cheese in Canada.)

Things That Shouldn’t Be Said In Modern Society To Be Said At Least 1,400 Times At RNC | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source (Could be published in the NYTmes.)

Everything You’ve Heard About Failing Schools Is Wrong | Mother Jones (School should be special for every student.)

Apple Jury Foreman: Here’s How We Reached a Verdict – YouTube. (Kind of disturbing.)

Facebook Improving Site Integrity Systems To Combat False Likes | TechCrunch. (Facebook is a mess. Many of the Profiles and Likes are fakes, much more so than they will admit. Real identities are what made FB win; are fake identities what will make it lose?)

Outside Online Print This | My Life With Lance Armstrong. (6 Tour de France’s was not an easy thing to do, even if you were cheating.)

J.R. Moehringer’s 120 reasons why football will last forever – ESPN The Magazine – ESPN. (Prediction: football will be drastically different within a decade (e.g. 2 hand touch). I’m serious.)

What is the value of a science PhD: Is graduate school worth the effort? – Slate Magazine. (Doing something you love is never a waste of time. S&T will be the subject of our next essay.)