December 12, 2011: Afternoon
- Brief history of price fluctuations in the cost of Barbie dolls and associated real estate.
- Norway suffers butter shortage after fad diet depletes national stock.
- Researchers analyze email response time and find we reply to friends first (within seven hours).
- Study finds low speaking pattern, once classified as speech disorder, now fad among American women.
- Story of identical twin boys who are now brother and sister.
- Pictures of people and the fish they resemble.
- Life lessons acquired from salt.
- Recipes from the Jean-Paul Sartre cookbook.
- TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin on the best book he read in 2011.
- The year in band names.
- Examples of Leif Podhajsky's psychedelic art and album covers for Warp, Sub Pop, etc.
- Kanye and Jay-Z's "Niggas in Paris" rendered in emoji.
- Alex Ross's exceptional 2011 classical recordings, "which may be of assistance as you seek the perfect gift for your curious nephew who likes Fauré."
- Slideshow of Hollywood's worst sex scenes (NSFW).