29 July 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 29 Jul 2010 How engineers stabilized the Leaning Tower of Pisa. Exiled from Iran, two brothers continue to produce controversial art in Dubai. Saudi feminist poet defies death threats. Analyzing the faith-intelligence correlation, researchers ask subjects if their religion is the "one true religion." Historians can't agree why portion sizes keep increasing in Last Supper depictions. The "suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever" are 12% David Foster Wallace. In tomorrow's TMN newsletter: a conversation with Paul Ford and your monthly Map Quiz--sign up your inbox here. A new U.K. business employs refugees to construct ethical underwear. Investigating athletes' superstitions about lucky underwear, lucky balls. Catalonia becomes the first Spanish province to ban bullfighting. Video: For those who wish Kids was real, proof Times Square in the '80s was hella real. New York will solve the bedbug crisis by speaking very sternly to the bedbugs. TMN's Anthony Doerr offers his soundtrack for a night of dish-washing and sky-staring. "I wanted to be the first woman on the Moon: and I am totally disappointed that I could still fulfill that goal."
