August 7, 2013: Morning
- Mugabe-appointed men charged with illegally lobbying to overturn U.S. economic sanctions against Zimbabwe.
- Officials in Bahrain use fake Twitter accounts to track down IP addresses and punish critics of Hamad regime.
- Finished dinner plates of India's growing elite.
- Rahul Ghandi's alleged claim that "poverty is just a state of mind" infuriates Indians on Twitter.
- Study finds as temperature increases one standard deviation from the mean, the likelihood of interpersonal violence rises by 4 percent.
- Blockbuster screenwriter discusses the fight to stop himself, not top himself.
- TV writers and academics explain the evolution of the 13-episode season.
- Graduate student reproduces The Great Gatsby in typeface based on Jazz scores from the twenties.
- Chinese performance artist, performing commentary on sexual abuse, sexually attacked on stage by angry male artists.
- Missouri man snaps finger off a 600-year-old statue at a museum in Florence.
- First-class travel on airlines is largely "superiority for hire," and it's a shame JetBlue doesn't see it that way.
- Man tries to bring his pet turtle on a plane by disguising it as a hamburger.
- Man lets his children widely sample—and somehow survive—various fried things at the Indiana State Fair.
- Obesity rate in children of low-income families experiences significant decline thanks to government intervention.
- See also: How obesity harms a child.
- New research shows men who survived the Holocaust outlive men who avoided it by an average of 6.5 months.
- Tales from the Hunger Games-inspired summer camp in Florida.
- Definitive answer to the ridiculous question that many people have asked in all seriousness: Could LeBron play in the NFL? Yes.