Informed Consumer: There is article on refreshing and inexpensive summer wines that I know would interest at least a couple of us, and for the paranoid hypochondriacs like me, an article that rates mosquito repellents.
I really like this: Slate is doing audio tours of museums:"Museums, historical sites, and the companies that produce their audio tours aren't completely honest with you. They can't very well say things like "critics think this work is terrifically overrated, but we keep it on the wall because we sell a thousand posters of it a day," or "we know this sketch looks profoundly boring, but here's why it's the most interesting thing you'll see all day," or "we only hang this painting here because old Mrs. Dimbledumble wouldn't have donated the new East Wing otherwise." They can't say things like that, but we can. " The one featured now is the Met in NY, but I hope they do some DC museums soon!

To address Matt's question from earlier this week, Slate has an explainer on whether extending daylight savings really saves energy.