August 23, 2013: Afternoon
- Despite warnings, when doctors prescribe antibiotics, they usually prescribe big—and often shouldn't prescribe at all.
- Dentist buys one of John Lennon's teeth at auction, hopes to clone the late Beatle.
- Regarding Manziel, in defense of NCAA rules: Most of the athletes actually want an education.
- ESPN ends Frontline relationship ahead of concussion films, denies it's out of allegiance to the NFL.
- If you never got into Six Feet Under, here is the episode that will change all that.
- See also: David Foster Wallace predicted our current era of TV binge-watching.
- Read the last paragraph of this 1983 Times article predicting the future of the NSA in a computer-dominated society.
- Gladwell: I think that it is a mistake to assume that the 10,000-hour idea applies to every domain.
- Greatest tricks over the years from yo-yo competitions and promotions.
- Adaption explains why some silences seem more silent than others—physically impossible, but psychologically true.
- Brief history of technology in paranoid delusions shows cultural developments starting to mirror the accidental inventions of psychosis.
- Volunteer tourism criticized for being "a perpetuation of colonialist behavior."
- List of the best phrases and words contributed to the English language from Chicago.
- Saturday Night Live actors explain what it's like to audition for Lorne Michaels, who doesn't laugh.
- See also: Analysis of an 18-word Mitch Hedberg joke.
- Man wants to make love to a woman like they do in the movies.
- A profile of EDM legend Andrew Weatherall at 50.