18 April 2011: Afternoon

  • Riots break out in Nigeria after results, some troubling, show Goodluck Jonathan to win.
  • Long read: Hitchens on sex, the divided self, and how his cancer's making him a human experiment.
  • Rider to last week's budget deal: gray wolf removed from Idaho and Montana's endangered-species lists.
  • Paleontologists have spent a lot of time musing about dinosaur sex positions, and they can't agree on very much.
  • Biologist E.O. Wilson trying, at 81, to overturn origins of self-sacrifice.
  • Despite tsunami, Japanese man determined to rebuild family's nine-generation soy sauce business.
  • Investigation finds scores of Indian pilots cheated their way to a license.
  • Small plane in New Orleans safely crash-lands on minivan.
  • Belgians shocked when bishop says, from Vatican hideway, his pedophilia was merely "a little game."
  • Inquiry into cases of "suicide by cop"--difficult to define, but possible to defuse through negotiation.
  • Profile of David Eagleman, scientist who studies when time appears to slow down (see Radio Lab episode).
  • Twenty-year-old straddles two jobs: world chess no. 2 and fashion model.
  • Easy, hard, and super-hard languages to learn.
  • Fantasy author George Martin: massively successful, paying for it by fighting to keep up with anxious fans.
  • Video: Dramatic reading of Gwyneth Paltrow's cookbook; Paltrow invites celebrites and The New Yorker to dinner.
  • Governor, no author since Homer has ever found his own book in a bookstore.
  • Op: Cooking less with nicer kitchen goodies--it's the American way.