August 1, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Commerce Department’s gross domestic product revisions say the Great Recession wasn't so bad.
- Assessment of the state of the male contraceptive pill: for both scientific and social reasons, there's no bright future ahead.
- Winners from climate change include brain-eating parasites that flourish in America's warmer lakes.
- Brand new, unusual antibiotic compound extracted from a marine microorganism found in California.
- On tweeting about death.
- Facebook, like gambling, is not about gain as much as being in the "zone."
- A journalist—like Willie Nelson and many other musicians—is busted at the infamous Sierra Blanca inspection facility, "the best little checkpoint in Texas."
- Writer attempts to pay for groceries with an essay accepted by a discerning online publication.
- Djokovic explains his diet: lots of avocados, warm water, cashew butter, and manuka honey from New Zealand.
- Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy talks business: namely, how to profit by growing up and learning how to fire your label, middlemen, and friends.
- It's not a political thing for me. I just don't give a fuck about T-shirts.
- Kickstarter of the week: The Itty Bitty Project.
- Copyright protections, covering titles published in 1923 and after, killed the market for books from the middle of the 20th century.
- "Gorgeous Beach Boys Vocal Track Isolated and Visualized Using Math."
- Photographer strives to take a picture of every cornershop on the island of Manhattan as quickly as possible.
- The only way to save the orange, Florida growers believe, is to alter its DNA.
- See also: "How the Internet Will Spawn Genetically Engineered Super-Oranges."
- Tales from the farmer's market, where employees love their produce—and hate the people buying it.
