17 May 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Berlusconi and berlusconismo take drubbing in local elections in Italy, where tide of aversion rises.
Prison allows Chinese inmates to reduce sentences by doing Communist cultural activities.
No djoke: Djokovic's domination of tennis attributed to gluten-free diet.
Sam Anderson: Eat, Pray, Love is avant-garde, "a self-generating, self-sustaining, self-replicating machine of perpetual self-reference."
Masturbating in an fMRI machine, all in the name of science.
Audio: Entertainment found in The Anatomy of Melancholy.
Sample of fast food moguls who lived long lives.
Inventor estimates unseen photographs of Michael Jackson could power the world.
Psychologists find that disclosing conflicts of interest can promote less ethical behavior.
Heartlifting story of Kevin Durant's rise to humble leader of Oklahoma City Thunder.
Louis C.K. directs, writes, edits, and casts his own show on FX, with no network input.
Op: Skipper from Gilligan's Island is the idealized role model of today's gay male bear.
Step-by-step and deadly serious guide to winning useless internet arguments.
Video: 15 uncoupled simple pendulums of monotonically increasing lengths dance together.