Pop Quiz: HodgePodge for Nov. 7

Chapters in history

A brief but elucidating history of the chapter from the New Yorker.

Put down that sandwich

People make better complex choices when they’re hungry. (Grocery shopping decisions apparently are not complex.)

Dollars and sentences

Jill Abramson, former executive editor for the New York Times is starting a new venture that aims to pay $100,000 advances to journalists.

That’s saxy

NPR wishes a happy birthday to Adolphe Sax, inventor of the saxophone (what a modest guy), a monstrosity of an instrument that somehow still managed to work.

Attention parents

Here’s an app that can make you seem like you remember more math than your kid can possibly imagine: The app that would end math homework. (From Alexis Madrigal, whose 5 Intriguing Things email newsletter is worth your consideration.)

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