August 7, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The space race is long over, but America still lags behind the Soviets in number of planets visited.
- Where Russia meets Kazakhstan, space junk is prevalent—as are health problems associated with toxic rocket fuel.
- Inside the mind of last week's Tennessee Democratic Senate primary winner.
- Romney's top campaign strategist: an adventurer-writer who's never voted Democrat, no matter what his editor says.
- Aaron Sorkin repeats himself.
- Why cyclists run red lights.
- Related: "How to Not Kill a Cyclist."
- Translated version of banned Russian article on four days spent with drug-addled youth.
- Arthur Conan Doyle's 1890 illustrated journal depicts his pre-Sherlock voyage as a ship's doctor in the Arctic.
- Ulysses is "pure style," bad for literature, says Paulo Coelho.
- How comic books around the world reflect their individual cultures—the Middle East's first superheroes arrived in 2005.
- Introducing Playtest, Matthew Baldwin's new board-game review site.
- See also: Matthew Baldwin's annual Good Gift Games guides.
- Tig Notaro's comedy set on Saturday: "Thank you, thank you, I have cancer, thank you, I have cancer, really, thank you."
