August 11, 2011: Afternoon
- The weight discrimination we observe in the labor market has its source in...the marriage market.
- Anticipating a marriage, let the word games begin.
- A brief story by Lionel Shriver about housing and marriage.
- Erica Heller—who's never read Catch-22—and others write about life as the cub of a literary lion.
- Joseph Heller wanted to call his book Catch-18, but decided otherwise because of a similarly named novel.
- TMN's Robert Birnbaum chats with the author of Tabloid City.
- Researchers spoil famous stories for readers, discover they actually like the story more.
- How baseball umpires, some more flamboyant than others, perfect their strike-three calls.
- This summer, TerraCycle's R&D department has been shredding diapers, looking for a way to recycle used ones.
- "When You're Nostalgic for the Era of Landline Telephones" and other Wikipedia entries for every situation.
- Before overhead announcements, airlines relied on "please read and pass along" notes from the cockpit.
- Michele Bachmann blames the Renaissance for today's problems.
- Happy birthday, octogenarian Betty Boop.
- An infographic of every Friday the 13th Jason Voorhees kill.
- Google Earth zooms in on a giant Canadian crowd.