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November 10, 2015
• “The big secret of the innovation economy is that it’s not very innovative,” said Baffler mayor John Summers to Christopher Lydon on Radio Open Source last week. Listen along here!  • You’ve heard the news: Modigliani’s ...

Daily Bafflements
November 09, 2015
• Welcome to “The Edge,” a low-hanging target for a magazine with a habit of blunting. Described as the “Uber of buildings,” this steely, app-responsive structure sounds like a giant game of musical chairs. No one has a ...

Daily Bafflements
November 06, 2015
• With the news that President Obama has rejected the Keystone XL Oil Pipeline proposal in what is being called a victory for environmentalists, it seems a good time to look back at Scott Beauchamp’s dissection of the “jobs vs. environment myth” here on ...

Daily Bafflements
November 05, 2015
• In case your kids are lacking appropriate role models, one venture capitalist is stepping up to offer them a tale of some true superheroes. In the Kickstarter pitch for Joe Floyd’s new graphic novel, he tells us that “young people grow up idolizing the ...

Daily Bafflements
November 04, 2015
• This is Amazon’s week of delusion. Yesterday, the company known for steadily cutting off booksellers’ and publishers’ oxygen opened a brick-and-mortar bookstore in Seattle, according to the Seattle Times. And on Thursday, that same company, whose ...

Daily Bafflements
November 03, 2015
• We’re proud to introduce the newest member of the Baffler brood—our twenty-ninth issue, “The Family That Preys Together”! Find it, and its all-too-healthy set of lungs, on newsstands! The online roll-out begins today with Kathleen ...

Daily Bafflements
November 02, 2015
• In Romania, imprisoned politicians, footballers, and pop stars are writing books to shorten their sentences, abusing a loophole in local law: Bad news, though! You won’t be able to lay your hands on these no doubt brilliant works—the publishers only tend ...

Daily Bafflements
October 30, 2015
• Technologies like Uber and table-side computers in restaurants are turning us all into terrible bosses, reports The Verge. Josh Dzieza writes that “the rating systems used by these companies have turned customers into unwitting and sometimes unwittingly ruthless middle ...

Daily Bafflements
October 29, 2015
• After a decade of legal proceedings, Google has won the right to scan the 129,864,880 books of the world into its searchable Google Books database. What does this mean for publishing? Most have stopped worrying about it by now, reports Jonathan Sturgeon, but Roberto ...

Daily Bafflements
October 28, 2015
• Each year six different dogs shoot six different people. Not deliberately. More dogs are shot by humans than humans by dogs. Dogs rarely fatally shoot humans. Only one cat has ever shot its owner. (Chase Madar wrote about human-on-human gun violence in his ...

Daily Bafflements
October 27, 2015
• These charts, assembled by Matt Daniels of polygraph, which map the durability (or otherwise) of pop songs past and present, are by turns surprising, depressing, and vindicating. According to the data from Spotify, Biggie was the big winner of the nineties, in ...

Daily Bafflements
October 26, 2015
• A win for safety is a loss for PR, according to one Japanese gangster ring: “A low-ranking underboss” from the Yamaguchi-gumi has declared that the group is not indulging neighborhood children with treats this Halloween. “Trouble is brewing with ...