August 16, 2011: Morning
- Holding elections and building commerce, shadow nations threaten to destabilize their neighbors.
- Next big UN assembly announcement to come from Russia, which plans to annex 380,000 square miles of the Arctic Ocean.
- After years of looking for cancer clues in 2% of the genome, researchers find the rest holds as many or more secrets.
- Scientists say caffeine can prevent skin cancer—though only massive amounts of coffee will help.
- The positive and negative effects of cost-benefit policy—say, when banned substances save lives.
- Not confessing to a crime you didn't commit sounds like a no-brainer, but science shows people do it all the time.
- David Berman and Stephen Malkmus email about naming Malkmus's new album "L.A. Guns."
- My monkey-loving boyfriend dragged me to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes...and here are my notes and drawings.
- An unofficial list of authors with work optioned or greenlit by HBO for something In 2011.
- News imitates Seinfeld: Actors pick up gigs as patients at medical colleges.
- Tracking changes to a Richard Scarry book, 1963 to 1991.