Daily Bafflements

• The Washington Post reports that the NIH is spending $5 million on a campaign to convince hipsters that “styling your sweet mustache” is a good alternative to smoking.

• The Baffler’s favorite v-word comes to Grand Forks, North Carolina, where “vibrancy committees” have been established to nurture what the mayor calls Grand Forks’ “growing entrepreneurial spirit.”

• Yale recently held a conference with the aim of going “beyond intellectual property” and helping “collaborative communities thrive [through] decentralisation and freedom.”