Headlines from September 11, 2013

The richest Americans earned the highest share of the nation’s income in the past 100 years.
Here’s the awkward thing for Labour: the economy is slowly picking up steam.
Citizen militias fighting drug gangs in the hills of central Mexico are becoming better armed and more coordinated.
If you’re dreaming, you’re napping wrong—and other tips to ideal sleep rejuvenation.
Eating breakfast doesn’t help weight loss after all. #health
Children heading to school around the world. #photos
The most inexplainable images on the web.
Unlike many cable channels, there’s not a lot of edgy, disturbing series on A+E Networks, which is just fine with ad buyers. #tv
Getting retweeted 500 times could spell prison time, says new Chinese law.
Today’s intellectuals deal in attention more than scholarship, and have found ways to turn trolling into clout. #opinions
Invisibility cloaks may now be in the realm of mass production.
I have to have a nuanced takeaway. Earthquakes in South Texas over the past couple of years likely due to oil extraction.
The pecan has grown in Texas for 65 million years, though it was not until about 16,000 years ago that it began to receive serious attention.
Endless crop circles, one after another, viewed by satellite. #video
My self is the earth’s shadow that keeps me from seeing all the moon. Flannery O’Connor’s letters to God.
Excruciating: 45 minutes of onstage banter from Paul Stanley of Kiss. #audio
Obama delays Syria military vote he was certain to lose in favor of exploring Russia’s proposal for international monitors.
Not all manner of sin is equal. The lessons of Weiner and Spitzer.
From 2009, Tom Junod’s haunting essay about the photo of the man plummeting from the World Trade Center.
Poems by Auden, Whitman, and Colson Whitehead that relate to our struggle to memorialize Sept. 11.
The most “vain” skyscrapers—buildings with the highest amount of unoccupied space—in the world. #charts
At “death cafés,” strangers gather to talk—even laugh—about death over tea and cake.
One young guide jumped onto the back of our car and clung to the rear window. Egypt tourism post-Arab Spring.
People who speak languages with strong future tenses tend to be more responsible about planning the future.
The privatization of environmental preservation is “a recipe for disaster.” #opinions
A lot of things in the food industry…become very hip, yuppie and white. The paucity of ethnic diversity in craft brewing.
Indians are genetically predisposed to midriff weight gain; clothing brands respond to rising obesity rates accordingly.
Close-ups of the most intense facial expressions made by tennis players during the U.S. Open.
George Harrison and Bob Dylan play tennis in 1969. #photos
All American fiction could be classified as immigrant fiction. Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri.
Szechuan peppers make your lips numb because of a molecule that “vibrates” nerve endings.
Comic strip illustrates the cognitive process of fear.