26 August 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 26 Aug 2010 While Medvedev drank tea with Bono, Putin warned bears and shot a whale. Venezuela's population is the same as Iraq's, but its murder count is three times as high. Potentially to blame for China's epic traffic jam: King Coal. Due to China's hunger for vehicle ownership, a traffic jam was inevitable. Hilarious response to a dermatologist telling the Times that e-readers will erase "stigmas associated with reading alone." Op: Neurophilosophy will not replace philosophy--questions about mind are not exhaustible by investigation of the brain. Debate about mind versus brain complicates depression treatment. Most people I know have problems with Internet addiction. The case for tossing your smartphone. Editor (unsuccessfully) tries dating site based on book taste. The cameraman just walks away, and you want to die. PEN/Ackerley nominee on losing literary prizes. Explanation of how writers make money. Royals historically pursued incest to behave like gods and protect assets. Pictures by Barry Goldwater, amateur photographer. Op: Hopper wasn't a nostalgic painter, but a pessimistic one who conveyed silence and isolation. Nearly 50 years after Hemingway's suicide, A Moveable Feast remains "a masterpiece of malice." More in the summer of TMN books: Jessica Francis Kane on the time it took to write The Report.
