August 30, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- They may just be the first YouTube videos to start a war.
- Paleontologists announce the most complete dinosaur skeleton ever found in British Columbia, expect their dig will produce more.
- Researchers say thinking about money problems clouds your faculties, makes it harder to solve other problems.
- Why NFL helmets will never be concussion-proof.
- A map of college football fandom based on Facebook likes—Texas wins, even it doesn't.
- At its campus store, Facebook sells "social butterfly" blue nail polish.
- The salad days of tech culture, found in the Fall/Winter 1983 Sears catalog.
- From Sears's turn-of-the-century functional gear to Neiman's '70s opulence, a history of American catalogs.
- Chef Charlie Trotter appears to be having a nervous breakdown.
- There's an occult connection between what you do and what its potential significance is in a time of crisis.
- Louisiana chimpanzee wins $10,000 in a primate art competition judged by Jane Goodall.
- How Wikipedia has been good for fine art.
- Related: Photographs of people explaining works of art.
- Why "Snow Fall"-style multimedia articles are bad for the future of journalism.
- Dear listicle peddlers: Stop, stop, stop, stop hurting America with your content strategy.
- The people you meet in the cronut line.
- To last you all weekend: Marvin Gaye's isolated vocal track from "I Heard It Through the Grapevine."
