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Hey, did you read:
• Helen Rosner on the backlash over Pete Wells's takedown of Guy Fieri's Times Square restaurant (and why Fieri matters)? —Mike Sula
• This consideration of Herman Melville as a science writer? —Ben Sachs
• That the prolific and collaboration-minded German electronic-music artist Pete Namlook has died? —Peter Margasak
• About the similarities between the brains of jazz musicians and rappers, as revealed by functional magnetic resonance imaging scans? (It all boils down to the gift of improvisation.) —Mara Shalhoup
• This study that finally proves what we've all been thinking: human beings are actually getting dumber? —Luca Cimarusti
• That Stephen Colbert has shut down his super PAC? —Jerome Ludwig
• That Coca-Cola is investing in Spotify? —Leor Galil
• That thing in the Atlantic about problems with American generals that's actually newsworthy? —Paul John Higgins
• The Oxford English Dictionary has declared omnishambles (referring to something that's fucked-up in all possible respects) to be the word of the year? —Philip Montoro
• That the Burmese government freed 452 prisoners (none of them dissidents or human-rights activists) in advance of Barack Obama's visit? —Ben Sachs
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