August 9, 2012: Afternoon
- A team of 20 drivers can't wait for their chance to operate Curiosity.
- Roundup of Curiosity camera pics and resources.
- Study finds athletes who travel more than five timezones to compete double their chances of illness.
- Earthquake clusters like the one that began Tuesday in Southern California aren't uncommon to the region, just infrequent.
- Three new fossil findings offer compelling evidence of evolution within our genus.
- A timeline of future events.
- Q&A on the set of freak shark attacks that inspired Jaws.
- Why Harry Reid is telling the truth about Romney's tax evasion—and why it takes an intelligence expert to figure that out.
- DC man "shocked" to receive a Sig Sauer SIG716 assault rifle instead of the 39-inch LED TV he ordered through Amazon.
- Beck partners with McSweeney's to release his new album exclusively as sheet music.
- There's no way to control your oven temperature, and there's no reason you should worry about it.
- Take note of the top 1,000 books owned by libraries—especially no. 15.