April 24, 2013: Afternoon
- For $250,000, guests at Las Vegas's Bellagio can press a button that sets fountain water to a tune of their choice.
- In America, people on the terror watch list are still allowed to buy guns.
- British man made millions selling fake bomb detectors to Iraq, with a design based on a novelty golfball finder; devices remain widely used at checkpoints.
- Doctor says cardiac patients can be restored to life several hours after "dying" with prolonged CPR and other treatments.
- Selection of unusual eye-exam charts.
- Paintings by Anna Conway that question whether life is merely a string of accidents.
- Studies find "cooling down" after exercise makes no discernible difference to pain and recovery.
- Part of being a dog scientist is acknowledging up front how little we know about their cognition.
- People magazine—"just blissfully out of touch with how most of the world feels"—names Gwyneth Paltrow the world's most beautiful woman.
- Round-up of nearly every time Gwyneth Paltrow has name-checked Jay-Z.
- Charles Simic on the life of a traveling poet.
- An assessment from the Atlantic in 1954 of Evelyn Waugh's best and worst.
- Journey of a specialty coffee bean from Huehuetenango, Guatemala, to a coffee shop in Portland, Ore.
- Los Angeles accountant who has eaten in 6,297-plus Chinese restaurants lists his favorites in California.
- Not often discussed about North and South Korea: both countries are ruled by women.
- Slash is not just a punctuation mark anymore.