August 27, 2013: Afternoon
- "While unceasingly observing and witnessing the heartbreaking bloodshed," Syrian Comment explains why intervention isn't viable.
- One of America's most respected bankruptcy lawyers moonlights as a new-age healer, claiming his "energy hand" works.
- If you are what you do, what are you when you stop doing it and you still are?
- Man with synesthesia maps the London Underground according to what each station tastes like to him.
- Interview with the artist who created the "poo printer"—a machine that produces letters using finch droppings.
- Bird-sighting, crowd-sourced.
- Pictures of objects consumed and coveted by Americans turned into modern-day totem poles.
- Rural Texas residents relate what it's like to live without internet access and then discover YouTube.
- Greatest YouTube hits from Good Neighbor, the new sketch group signed to Saturday Night Live.
- For our student readers: Fifteenth-century college students at Leipzig University urged not to throw urine on freshmen.
- At the University of Alabama, football fans and students are getting bored with all the winning.
- Musicians urge fans to quit using phones during concerts—concerts just aren't the same when attendees text the whole time.
- Events recounted from last night's secret Prince concert.
- Today's pop-culture theory: Miley Cyrus's performance was actually a thought-out response to criticism of "Blurred Lines."
- CNN editor: "Let Me Explain Why Miley Cyrus’ VMA Performance Was Our Top Story This Morning."
- How to cook dinner in the dishwasher.