April 10, 2013: Afternoon
- Iraq claims to be a "sovereign partner" of the U.S., but Iranian influence and an emerging autocracy signal otherwise.
- Russell Brand on Margaret Thatcher—"an icon of individualism, not of feminism."
- Femen: We are transforming female sexual subordination into aggression, and thereby starting the real war.
- A field guide to freezing your eggs—an expensive, though hardly surefire, experiment in future-baby-proofing.
- Related: Paul Ford's adventures in IVF.
- The U.S. continues lowering its education bar—common knowledge in a nation of information bubbles is getting harder to find.
- Scientists launch study to map babies' developing brains from the womb to the cradle.
- Reasons why my son is crying.
- Secrets from the potato chip factory.
- Europe looks to wood as the fuel of the future, but it doesn't produce enough timber to meet the rising demand.
- Though some countries have resumed executions, Amnesty International says the death penalty is "becoming a thing of the past."
- Oklahoma State University researchers file patent for a new steak (and the method of extracting it from a cow).
- Ben Greenman defends Morrissey's "wet-dog record."
- From the attic: "On Morrissey and Career Arcs."
- A Game of Thrones Craigslist sex ad: I'm looking for a Stark in the streets but a wildling in the sheets.