LongReads Round-Up Volume Twenty-One

Sadly, my laptop has once again met its match in Indonesia. I'm not planning on getting it serviced until the New Year, so I can only offer some less than beautifully formatted links for the time being.





A school in Mexico is producing some of the country's highest scoring math prodigies, using radical classroom methods - http://www.wired.com/business/2013/10/free-thinkers/all/






In memorandum of Lou Reed - http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2013/10/heroin-was-our-heroin.html?






Last Round Up I posted about Jezebel as revolutionizing women's media. Newcomer Bustle would like to inherit the throne. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2013/09/23/130923fa_fact_widdicombe?



I'm a big fan of the podcast WTF with Marc Maron, and this interview exemplifies why - http://www.vulture.com/m/2012/07/marc-maron-podcast-interview.html




Talking about video games in a high brow manner, always - http://www.grantland.com/story/_/id/9713372/looking-back-game-myst-20th-anniversary




So fascinating! How the sex lives of Japanese young adults has tapered off into an apathetic shrug - http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex




Talking about education reform methods, attempted solutions and unanswered problems - http://www.texasmonthly.com/story/%E2%80%9Cit%E2%80%99s-not-school-problem%E2%80%9D?fullpage=1






A science research council supporting big corporations, only to discover its funded by those same dark overlords!? No way! - http://motherjones.com/politics/2013/10/american-council-science-health-leaked-documents-fundraising





Angry feminists take to Etsy to craft their man hate. - http://www.salon.com/2013/10/27/fighting_sexism_with_cross_stitch_the_rise_of_misandry_crafts/