THIS IS THE 21ST CENTURY, YOU KNOW: Space-Based Solar Collectors Could Have a Sunny Future.

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FASTER, PLEASE: The Spray-On Surgical Film That Could Make Sutures Redundant. Thanks to reader Clay Aalders for the tip.

WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE (DON’T) TALK ABOUT DYING.

SMART DRUGS: FEATURE, OR BURDEN? “Smartphones mean the office is always in our pocket. Smart drugs could mean the office is always in our minds.”

OTOTO: Making The World Your Instrument.

SORRY, BUT THAT EGG IS GOING TO STAY SCRAMBLED: The New Yorker’s lame effort at un-embarrassing Jeffrey Toobin. “Toobin degraded the reputation of The New Yorker, which apparently no longer has an editing process capable of catching egregious mistakes in characterizing what is in a transcript that is right there to be seen by anyone with access to the web. The New Yorker used to seek out hard-to-find sources in what was a famous fact-checking process. We the readers trusted that. Here, it was easy to do one’s own checking, and the error was beyond obvious. Why is Toobin writing for The New Yorker? The only answer that comes to me is that the magazine is pandering to its readers, and I am insulted by the assumption that this is what we want.”

CHARLIE MARTIN: OMG We’re All Gonna Die, Part 4632: Stay out of the produce section.

PALMERSTON ISLAND, where everyone is related.

TAXPROF ROUNDUP: The IRS Scandal, Day 324.

PEOPLE AREN’T ACTUALLY ABANDONING MICROWAVES.

But when you read a little deeper, it turns out that people aren’t actually abandoning microwaves; they’re just not replacing them as frequently. . . .

Microwaves are also, in some ways, moving upscale. Sales of microwaves that are built into the kitchen, rather than sitting alone on a counter — which are much closer cousins to the commercial oven — have grown by more than 100 percent since 2000.

Hmm. So people are shifting toward built-in microwaves — and sales of microwaves peaked in 2006. This doesn’t suggest a trend toward fresher food to me; it suggests that the housing bubble produced a surge in demand for microwaves, as contractors and homebuilders installed them above half the ovens in the U.S. When the housing bubble popped, demand sank precipitously. Because people replace built-in appliances much less often than they do the ones on their countertop, it’s taking a long time to recover.

Also, they’re more reliable now, so they need replacing less often. And the new ones no longer offer fancy features that the old ones lack, so there’s no reason to replace them unless they break.

HIGHER EDUCATION BUBBLE UPDATE: Feds Partner With TurboTax to Push Income-Based Repayment on Student Loan Borrowers, Despite Potential Hefty Back-End Tax Bite.

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VIRGINIA POSTREL ON OCULUS RIFT: Crowdfunding Is Not a Scam, It’s Market Research.

GETTING TUBERCULOSIS FROM HOUSECATS. “In the first ever recorded cat-to-human transmission, two people in England have contracted tuberculosis from pet cats thought to have ventured into badger setts.”

IMPORTANT THOUGHTS ON farting and feminism. “There’s a lot of latent, insidious sexism surrounding farts, and farting.”

MATT CONTINETTI: The Autumn Of Patriarch Harry Reid.

NEWS YOU CAN USE: You Can’t Wish Away The Fertility Gap: There’s no gender difference bigger than this one, and we ignore it at our peril.

Related: Dating at 29 and 31.

Also, this.

DO IT FOR DENMARK! A government video to encourage Danes to have more sex. You know, I remember when Danes didn’t need government encouragement to have sex. “Book your holiday with our ovulation discount!”

Related: Ed Driscoll on what went wrong. “Since 1945, a multiplicity of government interventions – state pensions, subsidised higher education, higher taxes to pay for everything – has so ruptured traditional patterns of inter-generational solidarity that in Europe a child is now an optional lifestyle accessory.”