Ever notice that the NYTimes.com most-emailed list is slanted toward an older demographic? Maybe because only folks over a certain age—like our Aunt Mabel—still use the email tool. Here’s a quick, annotated guide to what grandma and grandpa thought you might be interested in from NYTimes.com …
1. After losing the lead to the columnists yesterday, health stories storm back today! And we know she’s been sending around this one, about how a federal advisory board voted yesterday to ban Percocet and Vicodin because of what they do to the old liver. She even sent it to us!
2. Hamburgers.
3. Oh, Canada.
4. Oliver Sacks + Channel 13’s Nova = Grand Slam for Aunt Mabel.
5. College loans.
6. The fly seduction story.
7. Maureen Dowd is back! After her strong performance on Monday, she’s back for more. Stepping up her game here.
8. Pros and cons for a master’s degree. We wish Auntie had sent us this one before we decided to drop $40k on grad school.
9. Bad health care. Like, really really bad.
10. Best story in The Times today, on how John Roberts continues to bring the Supreme Court to the right even though the rest of the nation seems headed in the opposite direction.
Final Tally:
Health: 2
Op-Ed Contributors: 2
Education: 2
Columnists: 1
Food: 1
Science 1
Supreme Court: 1
TV: 1
(Note: We credited the master’s degree story as a point for both Op-Ed contributors and for Education)
13-Day Total:
Columnists: 28
Health: 27
Travel: 8
Op-Ed contributors: 8
Money: 6
Technology: 5
Food: 4
Science: 3
Education: 4
