August 14, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- It is the recurring temptation of self-confident, insular elites to assume that the whole country loves what they love, hates what they hate and believes what they believe.
- Paul Ryan: "Admit it, I scare the ever-loving shit out of you, don't I?"
- Young environmentalists are scared, but there are still ways to effect change—beyond changing out lightbulbs.
- In hopes of protecting the Mesoamerican Reef, sculptor sinks statues to lure coral and tourists.
- Scientists dispel myth that British men care more about their football teams than their wives.
- Going to SXSW? Vote to see TMN's Andrew Womack in "Too Long Didn't Read."
- A look back at many of Google's famous doodles and a look inside the department that creates them.
- If the USSR still existed, it would have dominated the 2012 Olympics, medaling 163 times to the U.S.'s 104.
- On thinking in sentences.
- Over the past decade, a linguistic trickle swelled into a flood of buzzwords tagged with the curiously resonant suffix "ome."
- Backcountry rescue crews are risking their lives to save people who use gadget distress calls as room service.
- Related: When we celebrate a hiker who sawed off his hand, we pay tribute to an idiot and ignore countless smarter climbers.
