The untold story behind Pokémon's 'Pokérap'
UChicago student Eric Thurm writes about the legacy of Pokémon’s iconic song
The Week
The Sochi Effect and the unwanted Olympics
Prof. Allen Sanderson says countries tend to lose money hosting the Olympics
Marketplace/American Public Media
“Demonstrably false”: Tim Geithner’s self-serving nonsense and the crisis of student debt
In interview, Prof. Amir Sufi evaluates Timothy Geithner and the factors that led to the 2008 financial crisis
Salon
Cosmic Inflation: Have Scientists Indeed Found the Smoking Gun? (Q+A)
Prof. Michael Turner discusses evidence of cosmic inflation with physicists from Princeton and Cambridge
Space.com
It's not easy being green – especially if you're a Republican and that's your job
Column by IOP fellow Ana Maria Cox profiles another IOP fellow, Republican Bob Inglis, and his views on global warming
Emanuel Wants To Require Videotaping Of All Gun Sales In Chicago
University of Chicago Crime Lab researchers help craft report proposing new regulations for gun stores
CBS 2 Chicago
Three’s Company, Two’s a Crowd: Meet the Efimov Effect
Article cites research by Assoc. Prof. Cheng Chin, who manages to achieve a mixed Efimov state between cesium and lithium atoms
Scientific American
From a diverse group of judges, a unanimous opinion on same-sex marriage
Asst. Prof. William Baude says there must be a ‘momentum effect’ to the string of identical rulings of federal judges striking down gay marriage bans
Cultural Revolution
Prof. Wu Hung curates opening exhibition for new Chinese museum founded by renowned art collector
We Still Don't Know How Static Electricity Works
Experiment by Prof. Heinrich Jaeger disproves reigning theory about static electricity
