August 5, 2013: Afternoon
- Sharia committee bans croissants for their shape, which has been said to celebrate European victory over Muslims.
- Successful scientific PR is not necessarily antithetical to valid science, but there's good evidence of a negative correlation.
- Why serial tardiness is ruining your life—and how to turn yourself around.
- Surowiecki: To survive in today's U.S. economy, it's going to take more than a higher minimum wage.
- Because you need a $550 margarita machine: the most expensive kitchen appliances.
- See also: In the 1940s, once visions of the future were accepted as absurd, prediction parody began.
- TMN's Mike Deri Smith on tracking down a rape-threatening Twitter troll.
- An ancient coin discovered in Israel portends what might have happened had Marc Antony won at Actium.
- Until 2002, the BBC had banned broadcast of the song "Gloomy Sunday" over concerns that it could cause a suicide epidemic.
- Chinese media cracks down on singing-contest programs and their associated melodrama.
- Across the U.S., many police budgets depend on assets suspects have forfeited—legally—in exchange for freedom.
- Three Brits take an "epic" road trip from Vegas to Denver.
- Photographer Mishka Henner captures Texas's feedlots and oilfields from above.
- What's fun about video games is not the winning and the losing, but the relief that comes with obedience.
- Related: New Yorkers kind of hate Citi Bike because humans are supposed to hate cheaters.