August 27, 2012: Afternoon
- Why Breivik's 21-year sentence doesn't seem like enough: It's a question of retributive vs. restorative justice.
- Two members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot have fled the country.
- The Economist remembers Neil Armstrong, "The Ice Commander": equal parts reserve and shyness.
- Anthony Lane on Armstrong.
- E.B. White: Like every great river and every great sea, the moon belongs to none and belongs to all.
- Ignacio Torres's animated GIFs of humans made from the dust of exploded stars.
- Results of a 1950s experiment that studied children forcibly locked in refrigerators.
- Campbell's introduces soup line inspired by Austin, Portland, and San Francisco food trucks.
- Christopher Hitchens's wife remembers their last months together.
- Many [Argentines] seem to know precisely what they want (at least in one area of their lives): psychoanalysis, and plenty of it.
- After Mat Honan lost his digital life to hackers, he thought he'd lost everything—here's how he got it back.
- Hip-hop's change of heart.
- Delving into the history of consciousness after decapitation.
- New studies demonstrate how small nets could be used to remove blood clots in stroke victims' brains.
- When asked how long a life is long enough, most said 80 years, some 120 or 150—a few chose forever.
- Scientists warn global food shortages could result in forced vegetarianism.