* China admits two tons of "gutter oil" are consumed in restaurants; real amount believed ten times larger. * Taibbi: Rick Perry is the best little whore In Texas. * Hitchens drops the hammer on those who encourage dying people to believe in God. * Advanced degrees increasingly helping firefighters get ahead.
* Freed Palestinian prisoners uneasily switch to their new lives as celebrities for Hamas. * Decades of aborting girls in India has caused emergence of "wife-sharing" between brothers. * North Korean media silent about Gadhafi's fall, Arab Spring. * Notes from working inside Burning Man's infrastructure. * Occupy
* Explainer: Israeli and Palestinian preconditions for talks. * Interactive tracker of the Obama administration's economic, domestic, and foreign policies. * Senate's MAPLE Act would make sales of fraudulent syrup punishable by five years in prison. * It's fall, it's football season, therefore TMN recommends for
The view from Dallas, Texas.
* Iraq vet hospitalized with skull fracture after being hit by an Oakland cop's tear-gas canister. * Occupy protesters aren't upset about Wall Street's riches—they're angry about Wall Street's cheating. * What to make of the Euro deal. * Sikhs in northern
* Pictures of floodwaters in Bangkok, which will be incredibly vulnerable if protective dikes fail to hold. * South Africa supports Palestinian bid for U.N. membership. * Update on nationwide Occupy protests. * Development of Greek government debt as measured by the gap between Angela Merkel's fingers. * Chart explains ad agency
* Oakland police disperse hundreds of Occupy protesters with tear gas and flash bombs. * World power swinging back to America. * Occupy Wall Street movement's library includes science fiction and Chomsky. * In case you missed it: poetry at OWS. * Six men to simulate Mars mission inside a rocket stand-in
* Rick Perry doubles down on birtherism, catering to majority of likely GOP primary-goers. * U.S. fears terrorism in Africa. * France to aid Kenya's intervention into Somalia. * Advertising is evil. * Favorite long-term data sets: prize-winning fishing catches; dates of Japanese festivals; continuous plankton collection. * Ian Frazier
* Vatican calls for central world bank to oversee financial institutions. * Pictures of faces with money. * Wikileaks to stop publishing secrets due to block by credit-card companies. * N+1 releases Occupy! An OWS-Inspired Gazette as PDF—"an attempt to begin to think through what is happening." * "
* Zooey Deschanel singing the national anthem suggests there are always new ways to desecrate America. * The average American three-year-old can recognize 100 brands * Business notes on Green Bay. * St. Louis's Rzepczynski stacked against other hard-to-spell baseball names * Interview with the batter who inspired Haruki
