7 June 2010: Afternoon By The Morning News — 07 Jun 2010 Helen Thomas agrees she's not the best choice to give the commencement address at Walt Whitman High School. Psychologists diagnose Darth Vader with borderline personality disorder. Researchers armed with a laser find meditation preoccupies the mind, dulls pain. For nearly two centuries, a small Shiite sect called the Order of Assassins was one of the world's most lethal terrorist groups. What we experience in religious art, ultimately, doesn't have to lead us into heaven. How atheists can appreciate iconography. Follow-up analysis of Facebook geography compares networks to linguistic patterns. An inquiry into the far-reaching abilities of PowerPoint: from democratizing organizations to facilitating corner-cutting. We still feel the effects of agricultural decisions made 10,000 years ago--why today's genetic and environmental choices matter. American publishers could, and did, effectively pirate British books, selling them far more cheaply than books written by Americans. Jane Mount illustrates her ideal bookshelf. How internet addiction can kill conversation--as well as multimillion-dollar sales of online startups. From Here Is New York, E.B. White enumerates the three New York Cities. Tennis guy wins tennis again.
