Christina Huh
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Make your own mooncakes!
Sep 21, 2010
Marketplace's Rob Schmitz reported on the black market for mooncake vouchers that emerges every Moon Festival. Traditional mooncakes, what with...
California sunshine to blame for budget crisis?
Sep 14, 2010
Conor Friedersdorf points to the weather for the dicey financial situation the state of California is in, on Esquire's politics blog....
Playlist: Fashion, gas lines and white space
Sep 13, 2010
On today's show, we talked about who's responsible for the maintenance of gas pipelines. The FCC's considering opening up "white space" to the...
Dear mom and dad, Wealth Camp's a lot of fun!
Sep 13, 2010
The rich always have their own special way of doing things, including summer camp. The Wall Street Journal talked to attendees of Citi Private Bank...
Your waist doesn't lie, but your pants do
Sep 9, 2010
A size 36 is a size 36, right? Esquire's Abram Sauer discovered that men's pants are subject to vanity sizing too. He measured several pants all...
The New York Times v. The Wall Street Journal
Sep 8, 2010
The fine folks at the Taiwanese animation company NextMedia Animation brought their special touch to the New York Times v. Wall Street Journal...
'Shrooms may ease anxiety in cancer patients
Sep 7, 2010
According to a study published in the Archives of General Psychiatry (abstract only), hallucinogen psilocybin (which to you and me, is known as ...
Fryer + Beer = Deep-fried beer
Sep 3, 2010
You'd think deep-fried butter was the pinnacle of fried food -- it's fat fried with fat! But an inventor debuted deep-fried beer at the Texas Sta...
Twitter makes for better commodities trading
Sep 2, 2010
This final note today. Another in our continuing series of me getting my head around how Twitter can actually be useful sometimes. I saw an...
Become the mayor of your local STD clinic!
Aug 31, 2010
Overshare is reaching new heights with the latest from Foursquare, the phone app that let's you "check in" to places so friends (and strangers) can...