28 September 2009: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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Gbenga Akinnagbe, actor who played killer Partlow on The Wire, goes for a climb in Nepal.
Arresting photos of last week's flooding in the Southeast.
Op: Human nature is back in policy debates, with neuroscience reports supporting both sides.
A cool-headed look at 1939.
If air travel worked like health care: a dramatization.
Accessible data explaining how we're moving the Earth outside of the Holocene era, into a less desirable state.
At first glance, TMN editor believed Kanye was criticizing Iran, and that the Journal was rapt.
"Bipartisan" and "centrist" are the two most misused words in the political dictionary.
Mark Twain: most misquoted man in history and victim of "Churchillian drift."
While you eat at your desk: George Saunders spends a week in a tent city.
With a new title to appear in Stieg Larsson's Millennium series, a look at all the controversy.
Overview of incomplete works by D.F.W., Greene, Vonnegut soon to hit shelves; roundup of the season's memoirs by novelists.
Always fun: Comments extracted from creative-writing workshops.
Video: BBC's "Human, All Too Human: Nietzsche" (also, Heidegger, Sartre).
More than 2,000 invisible dogs were walked in Brooklyn this weekend.
Our bodies were made of meat and supported by little sticks of calcium. What we'll say to our grandchildren.
