August 19, 2011: Afternoon
- Tracking high school students preparing for the gaokao, China's national exams.
- Video: Distribution of American post offices, 1700-1900.
- New York store that sells only fancy umbrellas—$38 to $995—has begun phasing out the $38 models.
- Story behind archivists restoring nine films Hitchcock directed in the 1920s.
- New Christoph Niemann column updates Rock Paper Scissors with additional hand gestures.
- Google's list of bad words.
- Crash introduction to epigenetics.
- Cookie Monster performs Tom Waits's "God's Away on Business."
- Evangelicals question the Adam and Eve story just as much as anybody else, though perhaps differently.
- Song for a Friday afternoon: "Cosmic Dancer" by T. Rex.