August 30, 2011: Morning
- Chinese parents incensed at demolition of unsanctioned schools—and the high-rises that replaced them.
- Ai Weiwei blasts Beijing, where one of the only positives is that people still give birth to babies.
- If terrorist methods are as widely available as automobiles, why are there so few Islamist terrorists?
- Chronic fatigue sufferers turn militant, threaten scientists who suggest the condition is partly psychological.
- Why are we still using the TI-83 graphing calculator?
- Alton Brown talks about next week's final taping of Good Eats.
- Djokovic sits in a pressurized egg that purportedly speeds healing by boosting circulation, blood cells.
- The next great American player plays like Sampras, Agassi, Ashe, and Roddick—and erupts like McEnroe.
- An appreciation of Central Park's new signage, which is more about doing things than prohibiting them.
- New Bowie bio says the reports of his '70s drug use were greatly exaggerated.
- Bowie's Space Oddity in children's book form.
- Bottom of frying pan or new NASA satellite image?
- What life would be like if Earth was a cube.