Heard about these pay-what-you-want restaurants? No prices, just pay what you think you should. It’s a fascinating experiment in psychology. According to the AP report about an outlet of the Panera Bread Co. restaurant operating under this model: The pilot restaurant is run by a nonprofit foundation. If it can sustain itself financially, Panera will…

A dispatch from the front lines of social progress in the People’s Republic of China: In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that practiced group sex and partner swapping. In online chat rooms,…

The stock market continues its dramatic slide today. Sounds like folks are getting spooked: Bill Gross of bond fund Pimco said that hedge funds were starting to liquidate their positions in a bid to preserve their capital – a worrying “mini relapse” towards 2008 territory. Andrew Roberts, head of European rates strategy at RBS, said…

Lots of buzz on the wine and food blogs about Eric Asimov’s Times column observing that the younger generation of wine aficionados don’t care about Bordeaux. Excerpt: But for a significant segment of the wine-drinking population in the United States, the raves heard around the world [for the 2009 vintage] were not enough to elicit…

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