August 15, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Rebuke to anti-algebra op-ed says algebra, like math itself, is for everyone.
- I make even my most ardent pro-choice friends very uncomfortable when I explain why my mother should have aborted me.
- Soledad O'Brien lucidly fact-checks GOP's $700+ billion Medicare cut claim.
- New words added to the dictionary this year: bucket list, mash-up, craft beer, sexting, and f-bomb.
- Russian Orthodox priests enjoy sports cars, hard drinking, extremely expensive watches.
- Fox and boar help three kangaroos escape from German zoo.
- Radioactive fallout from Japan's Fukushima meltdowns may have created new insect species.
- "POSD"—Post-Olympic Stress Disorder as experienced by bluesy athletes.
- If ever a form of popular music dropped dead suddenly, it was prog.
- History of American summer reading.
- Latest report, this time from China, from TMN's international summer reading series.
- Sculptures made from handfuls of water tossed into the air.
- This summer marks the quasquicentennial of Oscar Wilde’s first office job: editing a fashion magazine.
- Photographers who focus on single pictures, not projects, no longer have a place in contemporary art.
- Q&A on photographers' rights and the crime of taking pictures in public.
- Heated faxes between Camille Paglia and Julie Burchill.
- Quickly becoming the official snack of Summer 2012: Hot Cheetos and Takis.
