August 14, 2013: Afternoon
- Meet Kathy Hawken, pro-choice Republican.
- North Carolina residents and national watches see doom for state's "middle way" of politics.
- Poking holes in a TV show's explanation of sharks' sensitivity to electric fields.
- Norwegian prime minister's "daring" political maneuver—posing as a cab driver to hear real opinions—turns out to have been staged.
- The friendly microbes in your bowels communicate with each other—and sometimes, harmful bacteria eavesdrop.
- From strict diets to instructional tattoos, how NASA prepped its first space-bound astronauts.
- Sean Sasser, who on The Real World was half of one of the first gay couples seen on reality TV, dies at 44.
- A visit to tennis's Field of Dreams.
- The year's raciest book will shock only those who haven't read their noir.
- Angel Yam says she doesn't care if she gets back the Chanel purse she used for a roughly US$1,550 loan.
- See also: Alex Jung breaks through fashion anxiety to find himself—in a pair of Comme des Garçons drop-crotch pants.
- The history of pink as a masculine color—as a shade of red, it falls in the range of "warlike."
- A good reminder in our current era of TV watching and binging: How spoilers ruin everything. (Spoilers ahead.)
- Orwell on 1984.
- An instructional guide: "How to tell good people from bad people."
- Ashton Kutcher gives good life advice at the Teen Choice Awards.