August 2, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- British women determine Pippa Middleton's "Royal Mocha" skin tone to be "most desirable" of all shades.
- Fighting in Afghanistan, Ivory Coast, Chad, and Libya, France's military feared to be stretched too thin.
- North Korea eager to resume six-party talks, "without preconditions," to end its nuclear program.
- Moguls build minisubmarines to glimpse the Challenger Deep and other extremely deep ocean recesses.
- Paragraphs on posterity, time travel, and time machines currently hidden on Earth.
- Analysis of whether Marty McFly (Prime) was a destroyer of worlds.
- Recipes from 1933's Savoy Cocktail Book—"dedicated to you."
- You Lost Me There, one of NPR's Best Books of 2010, by TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin, available today in paperback.
- How trailers went from bad ads to film industry staple.
- Jessa Crispin on when travel fails expectations.
- Disturbing examples of food twitching—i.e., when salt replaces a dead creature's brain.
- America's least healthy breakfast.
- "Who's Your Ear, Nose, and Throat Doctor?"
- "Mom And Dad, I'm Gay And Also Stronger Than Both Of You, So Don't Try Any Shit."
