Exercise and temperature in US states: Too hot to trot
People who live in colder states take more exercise than those who live in warm ones(44)
The science of stuttering: Speech therapy
Unravelling the mystery of faltering speech(9)
A special report on feeding the world: Not just calories
People also need the right nutrients(1)
Ai Weiwei's "Sunflower Seeds" sells big and other articles we're reading(2)
Political theatre: Marathon training
America’s generals learn about Afghanistan through the stage(2)
Aid and corruption: Cleaning up
Can the Global Fund to fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria restore its reputation as the best and cleanest in the aid business?(8)
Volunteering and profiteering: Blood, not money
As public spending cuts start to bite and the government attempts to give away power by encouraging more ordinary people to wield the stuff, it is belatedly showing a certain deftness while tinkering with an existing service that relies on volunteers(4)
Daily chart: Global alcohol consumption: Drinking habits
A map of world alcohol consumption(104)
Recommended economics writing: Link exchange
The best of the rest of the economics web(4)
Mandates and the constitution: The commerce clause and health reform
If it's not interstate commerce now, it will be after the GOP is done with it(65)
French drug consumption: Pass the pills
A scandal reminds patients of the health risk from taking too many drugs(7)
Bill Gates and giving to Africa: Bill Gates: the view from Seattle
Bill Gates writes a guest post for Baobab(33)
Daily chart: Global obesity: An expanding world
How mens' waistlines have grown since 1980(44)
Judges and ideology: Telepathic Supreme Court vote counting
Justices Sotomayor and Kagan have little commerce-clause paper trail. Couldn't they suprise us?(25)
Boeing v Airbus: Subsidy junkies
Two correspondents discuss the WTO's ruling against Boeing(3)
Mandates and the constitution: The government does in fact force you to buy vegetables
Can tyranny be far behind?(57)
Another blow for Barack Obama’s health reforms is struck by the courts(70)
Health reform repeal: Fixing the mandate
It's actually pretty easy(74)
Budget cutters: Rand Paul swings for the fences
Cutting $500 billion is a bit harder than it sounds(53)
Medical statistics and the NHS: Cancer and the NHS
Suddenly the soundbite changes from “Britain worse than Europe for cancer survival” to “Britain worse than small proportion of Europe that bothers to submit data for cancer survival”(13)
Jack Lalanne: Remembering a fitness hero
Can you do fingertip push-ups? Jack Lalanne could, and how(2)
Health reform repeal: More of the tasty bits please
A poll shows the public wants health care reform to go further(42)
Health-care reform: Health-care reform is an ongoing process
Unfortunately, many in Congress disagree(23)
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