7 October 2010: Morning
By The Morning News
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C.I.A. invests in a search engine that mines data to predict the future.
Stephen Elliott, Blake Butler, and Christina Kingston confab on the challenges of intimacy on social networks.
How e-reading changes your attention span; James Bridle explains shared reading through e-books.
Conversations with David Sedaris on house cleaning, and how to make a living writing about living.
After two years of culinary worship, bacon's heyday is finally about to end.
From ca. 1949, a chart that classifies everyday tastes.
With traditional time off to harvest potatoes, students in northern Maine occupy idle hands with video games.
A brief history of André 3000's recent, awesome guest verses.
Chuck Schupp is one of baseball's most important men: the bat designer.
Tennis grunters fare better--possibly because the sound distracts opponents.
Study shows that striking powerful poses makes people feel powerful.
Op: No matter how hard we try to understand, the story of the Titanic will always be the story of human error.
In an age when everyone is a watchdog, journalist checks up on once-iconic consumer reporter David Horowitz.
Anonymous pimp discusses the economics of the job that helped him pay for college.
Frugal engineering--where cheap and simple is good enough--is taking off, with good enough results.
