LMNOP: HodgePodge for May 8

New tricks

Casinos are custom engineered to target your brains reward mechanisms. Now tech companies are trying to learn from them.

AMCing you

Don’t look now, but Mad Men is almost over. The Atlantic looks at the real products and wonders what it’s really showing.

A word from our sponsor

If you listen to more than one podcast, there’s a good chance you’ve heard a lot of ads from a few companies—MailChimp and SquareSpace among them. FiveThirtyEight and Marketplace listened to the top 100 podcasts (according to iTunes) and examined the ads.

News about news

Mobile is eating the desktop’s lunch in news as in all things.

Email you later

We love to complain about checking our work email in off hours, but we also love to do it.

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