* Remember Gilad Shalit? Israel approves swap of 450 Palestinian prisoners for the IDF soldier. * Hermain Cain's foreign-policy positions itemized--mostly, he doesn't know, but he'll decide later very quickly. * To be frank: Herman Cain is alive because he's rich. * Obama campaign
* Largest virus yet discovered isolated from ocean water near Chile. * Instead of showing Latinos working in restaurants, ads now find them eating there. * Bankers who claim their institutions are solid are like horror-film actors going for late-night forest strolls. * Mo Ibrahim's $5 million prize for "
* UN finds systematic torture of detainees at sites run by Afghanistan's intelligence service and national police. * Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes for appearing in film about Tehran. * School lockers, "the latest frontier in nesting," carpeted and wallpapered. * Remnants of a 1953 European motorcycle tour. * Hendrik
* With neurochemistry proving surfing's transcendence, Sartre, Camus, and Freud can sure carve. * Neuroscience dissenter takes out the "neurotrash." * Belief or disbelief in a Being is a matter of faith. * Violent clashes in Cairo mask quiet moves by Egypt's military against democracy. * True crime: Serial
* Twenty-four killed in Cairo clashes between Coptic Christians and security forces. * Arab spring in smartphone circles finds war between IT staff and workers who use their own devices. * Hitchens: Pakistan is the enemy, "humiliatingly subsidizing [those who] sabotage us." * Naomi Klein lets Wall Street's occupiers
* Now a decade old, the Afghan war is little better than half over, far from reaching goals. * U.S. drone fleet infected with virus we shouldn't worry about—yet. * Nobel Prize-winning women were powerful because they directly confronted evil-doers. * Human sociability rituals like chanting and dancing
* The GOP consensus on recession-recovery is fundamentally wrong, but only Romney is even partially skeptical. * Breezy history of American fiscal policy finds the Tea Party battling Alexander Hamilton. * Fry: Those who label Jobs "salesman" or "showman" display their asininity. * Ten unicorns of China policy debunked.
* Three win Nobel Peace Prize "for their nonviolent struggle for the safety of women." * Economic indicators, consumer sentiment are at an all-time disparity—it's not as bad as we think, and we think it's bad. * EPSN drops Bocephus, who claims he dropped them
* In Somalia, radical Muslims create famine, but you don't hear celebrities saying, "Fuck radical Muslims." * iPhone photo gallery from Rio's favelas. * Compilation of Steve Jobs's greatest hits, and the day's great tributes. * Archive of pretty much every Apple product ever
* Former Gizmodo editor remembers the kindness of Steve Jobs, wishes the iPhone 4 scoop happened differently. * Mossberg remembers the Jobs he knew, who phoned on Sunday nights, which annoyed his wife. * The iPod was...so forward-thinking that no one even knew they were supposed to want one until it
