August 12, 2013: Afternoon
- Scientists recreate four-billion-year-old proteins—though there's no way of knowing how accurate they are.
- Family farms aren't exactly disappearing—like industrial farms, they're just exploding in size.
- A new paper posits a formula to determine whether a country's livestock antibiotic use is worth the risk.
- How CDC researchers tracked down a 1996 salmonella outbreak to a Komodo dragon at the Denver Zoo.
- Of children with a gene mutation that can cause certain cancers, 10% also have autism.
- New research shows children with chronic stomach pains are more likely to have anxiety disorders as adults.
- Eighth-grade exam from 1912.
- Britain's youngest-ever barrister is 18—she started her first degree at 14.
- Norwegian Prime Minister works incognito as a taxi driver to hear citizens' true opinions.
- Engineer invents glassware that changes color if date rape drugs are detected in a drink.
- Robot bees from Harvard are touted as possible replacement pollinators.
- Pixar changes the Finding Nemo sequel's ending based on Blackfish's critique of orca treatment.
- Denmark warns swimmers of an aquatic threat.
- Using previously inaccessible tax output data, a bevy of maps show New York in new ways.
- Alexis Madrigal on how streaming has changed his music listening habits.
- See also: Giles Turnbull on the album covers that shaped his brain.