December 13, 2011: Morning
- Pressing China and Russia for action, UN says more than 5,000 people have died in the nine-month-long Syrian uprising.
- United Russia's rally in Moscow sparsely attended; many people forced to be there.
- List of the worst sounds in the world, with YouTube links.
- Reddit meets Louis C.K.
- People cry when David Attenborough recites "What a Wonderful World" to nature imagery.
- Related: Join the Sierra Club.
- To predict the future, try consulting the Economist from 1931.
- Billboard erected in New York of the $100,000 bill printed during the Depression that's now illegal.
- Profile of the Lubbock optometrist who put a pair of glasses on Buddy Holly.
- To summarize his views on Christianity, Jefferson used scissors to snip miracles and inconsistencies from the Bible.
- Everything you need to know about Tim Tebow, distilled.
- "One of the most consistent findings in educational studies of creativity has been that teachers dislike personality traits associated with creativity."
- Short portrait of a man in Paris who harvests old pianos for (their) organs.
- Videos of a man downing a mountain and a mountain downing men.
- "Shit Girls Say."