19 November 2007: Afternoon

  • Details of shrunken lives in Gaza post-Palestinian civil war.
  • FBI faces possibility that hundreds have been convicted based on wholly discredited bullet-lead analysis.
  • Op: U.S. schools are producing more top science and engineering grads than the job market can support.
  • In today's Gallery, Rosecrans Baldwin interviews seven-year-olds on the future of laptops, which have keyboards that go way past 11.
  • Rescue school seeks to save South Korean youths from internet addiction; can someone save North Korea's leader from his cinema addiction?
  • The cost of a coffin in Baghdad has risen to $50-75, up from just $5-10 before the war. Statistics on the hidden costs of Iraq.
  • Miss Landmine Angola 2008.
  • Gallery: Faceless viewers at the Museum of Natural History in New York.
  • Two New Yorkers go to see a Cormac McCarthy movie but dont really see it and that contraction is missing an apostrophe on purpose, by Nora Ephron.
  • You were wondering where all those gems come from in the New York Review of Books Classics Series? Meet ogliarch Edwin Frank.
  • Print for the commute home: Boring novels not sold in the business of selling (supposedly better mattresses for) sleep.
  • Newsweek profile of Jeff Bezos's plan to sell Amazon's new e-reader, the Kindle.
  • Tolstoy is the great novelist of physical involuntariness. James Wood on the new War & Peace
  • Some physicists involuntarily convinced by surfer colleague's theory of everything.
  • Video: How to turn a sphere inside-out without popping a hole in it.
  • Mp3philes, test your cognition of different encodings.