10 April 2008: Afternoon By The Morning News — 10 Apr 2008 News summary: The Week in China. In case you didn't know, Nelson Mandela needs permission to visit the U.S., since he's still considered a terrorist. Llew Hinkes in the Mp3 Digest on the songs you need to rage against pro-torture politics. Calculating how many people were killed in foreign wars based on how much you paid in taxes. How algorithms catch amateur Photoshopping in journalism. Judge awards Heather Mills writing credit on "Eleanor Rigby." We are not yet able to explain human consciousness, even less articulate self-consciousness as expressed in the reading and writing of poetry. Fascinating paper about the uniqueness of brains. Download for the commute: Freakonomics quorum on the progress made by psychology and psychiatry in the last century. More than 2,000 gather to say goodbye to Norman Mailer. Story of the day: To maximize ticket profits, Dallas is cutting down on the duration of yellow lights.
