A new issue of Wag's Review is out. From Adbusters, a special issue on the Big Ideas of 2011 is now online. From Cabinet, William H. Sherman on how to make anything signify anything. From n+1, Christopher Glazek on Hasids vs. Hipsters. Revealed at last, the secret recipe for Coca-Cola: Coca-Cola is dismissive of a US radio show's claim it has discovered the secret recipe for the popular soft drink. Is Dumbledore gay? Tamar Szabo Gendler investigates. From Arcade, Lee Konstantinou on 13 ways of looking at "Pac-Man". Stalin's Cannibals: Ron Rosenbaum on what the new book Bloodlands tells us about the nature of evil. From The Utopian, an interview with Daniel Bell (which took place on September 21, 2010, a few months before his death) on friends, foes, influences, ideologies, the state of the novel, the state of the union, and the old neighborhood. Dear single women of NYC: It's not them, it's you. Shell game: With their near zero interest rates, central banks are effectively subsidising the banking sector — with barely a pea passed on to the public. A review of Endgame: Bobby Fischer’s Remarkable Rise and Fall — from America’s Brightest Prodigy to the Edge of Madness by Frank Brady. People living in remote villages in Ecuador have a mutation that some biologists say may throw light on human longevity and ways to increase it. The sexual cost of female success: Young women have excelled academically, leaving men in their dust, but experts say it's at the expense of romance.
