Happy Taco Day: HodgePodge for Oct. 4

​In honor of National Taco Day, I’d like you to imagine each of these stories is wrapped in a delicious soft corn totilla.

The cost of doing business

You might have seen or heard the NPR piece on the dangers of acetaminophen, the active ingredient in Tylenol, which was produced in partnership with ProPublica. But did you know the reporting took two years to complete and cost $750,000?

It’s like texting, only online and public

On the occasion of Twitter’s IPO, Quartz brings us a look at the history of the company as told through descriptions of the service in the New York Times from 2006 to present.

Strawberries > Blackberries > BlackBerry

Few companies grow to dominate their market quite the way BlackBerry had. The Globe and Mail takes a very long look into the Canadian company’s fall from prominence.

I believe the term is “self-recommending”

How do you not read an article with this title? The Elvis Impersonator, the Karate Instructor, a Fridge Full of Severed Heads, and the Plot 2 Kill the President

A little art

There may be earth-shattering science going here, but really all you need to know is that these microscopic pictures look really cool.

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