February 19, 2013: Afternoon
- The most important fact about the United States in this century is that middle-class incomes are stagnating.
- How to buy recreational drugs online.
- A new survey shows underage drinkers prefer beer, and especially Budweiser.
- Program makes rhyming couplets from tweets unintentionally written in iambic pentameter.
- Poem by William McGonagall, deemed the worst poet in English literature, goes up for auction.
- Also on auction: Mark David Chapman's letters about his obsession with The Catcher in the Rye.
- Q&A with Rep. Tammy Duckworth.
- Q&A with Stanley McChrystal on special operations tactics, tech revolutions, and killing machines.
- Depp, Verbinski recruit Keith Richards, Tom Waits, others to sing pirate songs and sea chanteys for a new compilation.
- How to say no without feeling like a jerk.
- Photos of huge multi-species bird nests built on telephone poles in southern Africa.
- South Africa's Mamphela Ramphele announces her intention to form a political party to contest the nation's elections.
- The 2012 World Press photo award winners.
- How to achieve inbox zero for life.