11 July 2011: Afternoon
- Belarus arrests deaf-mute for shouting anti-gov't slogans and a one-armed man for clapping along.
- Bands touring this summer want fans to calm down.
- Naomi Wolf accidentally kills the messenger—dopamine—in dissection of porn's effect on brains.
- Foreign Policy predicts who will be advising 2012 candidates on all matters foreign.
- Primer on cryonics, and a look at myths surrounding frozen immortality
- Field guide to detecting bullshit.
- Fleet Street's '50s-era "Murder Gang" went further than phone hacking to nab stories.
- Forty years on, Stanford Prison Experiment participants reflect.
- Video: New York carousel becomes race track.
- Erica Jong: My daughter's generation is all about control.
- Harper's asks Elif Batuman to use "asshole" instead of "douchebag."
- Website of unfinished novels.
- In hopes of understanding Borges, Eric Benson travels to an unlikely place: Texas.