February 11, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Jillian Becker, friend of Sylvia Plath's, remembers their last days together, 50 years ago.
- Like most teenagers [I] had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her.
- Millenials report the highest stress levels of any age group, and their doctors are worried.
- The new wave of students working their way through college.
- Illustrator documents the sartorial choices of his children and their friends.
- Getting to the bottom of the "stubbie" and "steinie" beer bottle styles.
- British Airways introduces a teabag for use at 35,000 feet—where water boils at a lower temperature.
- As privacy paranoia grows, designers create anti-drone clothing and software-blocking glasses.
- History of pasta, which may have originated not from China, as popularly believed, but from the Middle East.
- The Believer introduces its new podcast, the Organist.
- How you think NPR reporters look vs. how they actually look.
- Related: The NPR Blooper Reel.
- Beck performs Bowie's "Sound and Vision" with a 160-plus-piece orchestra.
- The latest from James Blake: "Retrograde."
- Everything But the Girl's Tracey Thorn pens a memoir.
