2 August 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 02 Aug 2010 Redford on the energy bill: This is one of the many times when average citizens may be ahead of our leaders. As soon as we eat, we feel the need to make some noise about it. Simon Schama on the interconnections between language and food. The story of a 19th-century chef-inventor who created a proto-camping stove and other kitchen gizmos. A drinking game for reading articles about e-books. People telling you how to drink is every bit as tedious and annoying as people telling you not to drink at all. Americans are drinking more now than they have in the past 25 years. A new book explains how Puritans--who considered market pricing and worldly goods sinful--became capitalists. Scientists study trauma in mice to develop a drug that curbs fear. Brain scans effectively reveal guilt in terrorism scenarios. "It's time for us to be in charge of our own definition." Boy Scouts struggle for relevance. Custodians of South Africa's sacred waterfall fight to protect the site from tourism. Excerpt up today from TMN's Jessica Francis Kane's forthcoming novel, The Report. "You have three minutes to make a PowerPoint presentation that will take me three hours to click through." If Inception were about management consultants. A collection of the greatest mindfuck movies.
