December 5, 2012: Afternoon
- Even the White House wanted tighter restrictions on drones, in case the program fell into the wrong hands: Romney's.
- Russia's current political climate: "Everyone knows (and has evidence) that everyone else has been skimming money."
- New York real estate developers continue to ignore risks, unveil plans for housing within the flood plain.
- The sperm count of French men dropped by 32.3% between 1989 and 2005.
- India takes aim at the nagging problem of public urinators.
- Bloomberg challenges designers to reinvent the payphone.
- New personal devices can monitor and diagnose medical conditions—it's the first step toward a tricorder.
- Scientists develop a breath test that can diagnose bowel cancer with overall 76% accuracy.
- Related: Paging Dr. Google.
- Fantastic: GIFs of chemistry and physics experiments.
- Jay-Z very sweetly explains who he is to a woman on the subway.
- Once a health food for the elite, now peanut butter is the everyman sandwich filling.
- Find out how you can become a judge in the 2013 Tournament of Books.
- German publishers use paper from endangered rainforests to print children's books.
- Sarasota County police investigate if an unsolved murder from 1959 may have been committed by the same pair from In Cold Blood.
- Nabokov pitches astronaut melodrama to Hitchcock.