'Winning!': The Year In Mostly Annoying Quotes and Catchphrases

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• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food Stories

  Ten food stories you should read this year (or next year).

  by Peter Smith

• Environment

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Clean Energy

  It was a record year for solar power, but we also had the Deepwater Horizon spill. A look back at the major events in energy in 2010.

  by Andrew Price

• Culture

  

  What Makes Vuvuzelas So Annoying?

  If you've been watching the World Cup, you've heard the vuvuzelas. They're the plastic South African horns that, collectively, sound like "a...

  by Andrew Price

• Lifestyle

  

  The Most Annoying Dinner Party Ever: 7 Super-Specialized Diets

  So a rifletarian, an al pastoravore and a sobertarian walk into a kitchen...

  by Ann Friedman, Madeline Queripel

• Technology

  

  Billr: The App for Dining on a Budget (Without Annoying Your Friends)

  For those of us who can't pick up the whole check like a baller, there's Billr.

  by Zak Stone

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food

  From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

  by Peter Smith

• Technology

  

  The Psychology Behind Why Cell Phone Talkers Are So Annoying

  Overhearing half a conversation is inherently jarring, a study finds, and it has implications for safety while behind the wheel.

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap Year: Global Citizen Year Turns 18-Year-Olds into Future Leaders

  Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

  by Zak Stone

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition

  Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  One Night in Bangkok, 500 Years in a Refugee Camp

  Samy is in Bangkok—over 100 miles away from the one place he’s ever legally allowed to be. After Google Latitudes abruptly alerted me to the...

  by Brian Merchant

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: California Set the Trends in Education

  The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  'Softmindedness,' Riots, and Science: Seven Lesser-Known King Quotes

  Martin Luther King, Jr., is quoted—and misquoted—perhaps more than any other American. Here are some of his sayings you might not know.

  by Cord Jefferson

• News

  

  Unsettling Quotes from Alleged Arizona Shooter Jared Loughner

  Chilling public postings lay bare the mental state of Jared Loughner, the alleged mass murderer who opened fire at a political rally in Arizona today.

  by Alex Goldmark

• Culture

  

  That Martin Luther King Quote Is Fake; Use These Instead [Updated]

  The famous civil rights leader did have a great quote for today's news, but it's probably not the one you've seen.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Culture

  

  That Mark Twain Quote for Osama's Death Is Fake, Too

  A great American did indeed say the "obituary" quote, but it wasn't Mark Twain.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Culture

  

  The People We Said Goodbye To in 2011

  This year we say goodbye to addicts and martyrs, survivors and killers. 2011, we'll miss you and (some of) the people you took with you.

  by Zak Stone

• Design

  

  The Year In Photos

  Check out the Reuters year in pictures (barring some major news event in the next two weeks). It's a nice way to zoom through the year in a few...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Lifestyle

  

  The Year in Dealbreakers

  The writers of our Dealbreakers series talk about what it's like to air their dirty laundry.

  by Amanda Hess, Liz Mamont

• Lifestyle

  

  Kim, Hobos, and Flash Mobs: The Year in Marriage

  We fiercely defend marriage even as we perpetually redefine it. This year was no exception.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz