August 17, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- President Bachmann's foreign policy.
- For desk-bound Sherlocks, a real-life Australian beach mystery from 1948, "one of the world’s most perplexing cold cases."
- Mid-week short fiction: "Village 113," from TMN contributor Anthony Doerr's award-winning Memory Wall.
- Color of the sky right now in New York City.
- Q&A on how everything you think you know about pronouns—how people use them, that is—is wrong.
- Guardian reminds us who/whom provides never-ending column fodder.
- Brazil's birth rate reduced by industrialization, unregulated pharmacies, and telenovas about small families.
- Psychoanalysis "extremely popular" with Brazil's wealthy; "the poor prefer [plastic] surgery."
- Trendy "core" training found to be useless, even a hindrance; also, crunches don't create six-pack abs, low body fat does.
- My mother was the voice of McDonald's, and other Hamburger U confessions.
- Accounting for Texas's true and truly astonishing job-creation numbers (in which Rick Perry is found to be ancillary).
- Free artificial-intelligence class at Stanford attracts 58,000 students.
- Despite awful service, GQ food critic enjoys dinners at new hipster diner in Queens—up until an owner accuses him of patting a waitress.
- Phrase desired to explain why 13% of cell phone owners pretend to use their phone in order to avoid interacting with other people.
- Profile of digital scientist/pundit Jaron Lanier.
- Photographs of contemporary prospectors.
