April 18, 2012: Afternoon
- Afghan school administrators claim drinking water poisoned to keep girls out of class.
- Odds considered on when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will travel abroad, and whether Myanmar will let her back in.
- Evidence weighed in the case of a man who believes a stroke made him gay.
- Everyday objects broken down to their inner parts.
- People who don't use Facebook are akin to anyone who rejected having a telephone at home.
- Writers: Jonathan Franzen will drop your book if you use the word "then" as a conjunction without a subject following it.
- Musing on internet-speak and how written language may evolve to increase information density—i.e., saying more with less characters.
- Pop quiz: Is it a quote from Edith Wharton or a line from a review of Girls?
- The "manners and meanings" of the Obama era won't be shown on TV until the 2050s, when 40-somethings become nostalgic.
- Twitter feed of the 1912 diary of a London Symphony timpanist.
- In London, exhibit of 1,001 analog TV sets marks today's switch to digital TV.
- The astonishing "Hologram Tupac" is only one in a long line of singing ghosts.