Benjamin Tegarden

Apparently, The Cheesecake Factory is popular because their food tastes good. Shocking.

Making high-class meals from fast food.

Visualizing sabermetrics?

Undercover drug buyers bust undercover drug dealer: “[The undercover buyers] were told that the dealer was definitely not an undercover deputy. They promptly arrested the man, before officers from the sheriff’s office arrived and confirmed that the man was, in fact, [an] undercover deputy.”

Improving bus commutes across the Hudson River. I don’t know enough to have a strong opinion, but count me impressed that there are 315,000 weekday bus commuters from New Jersey!

Speaking of buses, emergency bricks. How long until these appear in the Chinatown buses?

Unregulated free market gone amok? Not quite.

On China’s holdings of low yield Treasuries: “China acquired its $2 trillion stash … in a fit of absence of mind. And just the other day, it seems, China’s leaders woke up and realized that they had a problem.”

The extinction oscillator.

America’s mean streak.

Historical reading.

The first major patent to-do: sewing machines.

19th century music piracy.

It’s slideshow day!

Dubai.

The Hoover Dam Bypass.

Transportation edition.

A guide to highway interchanges: Parts 1 and 2.

New York really is a different place to get around.

Depressing.

Subway photos from New York’s darkest days.

Failed states.

Real, useful science.

Terrifying science (at least for the residents of Bodega Bay).