Extra Credit: Our pick of stories from around the web that bridge the gap between news and scholarship. 

Tom Wolfe's new book accidentally rehashes an age-old question: does scientific progress nullify beauty? What's the relationship between science and art?

Thai-Italian fusion is massively popular in Thailand. How did pizza and pasta make their way into Thai cuisine?

Boston is considering joining the Atlantic time zone. How did Americans decide on time zones anyway?

Coffee. Everybody's favorite stimulant has many nicknames, and every one of these words has a story to tell. Consider "mocha."

The Phantom Tollbooth is one book JSTOR Daily readers told us they remember fondly from childhood.

In a passionate set of tweets J.K. Rowling recently tackled the issue of so-called "voluntourism."

The spoon predates the knife and the fork. It exists in every age and culture in a wide variety of shapes.

If you think “poison” when you think Agatha Christie, you’re dead on. Many of her novels feature poison. But did you know Dame Agatha was also a pharmacist?

Stories of animals behaving erratically before earthquakes have circulated for thousands of years.