February 21, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Human Rights Watch report finds Mexican security forces participated in 250 disappearances under President Calderon.
- Google releases video to demonstrate life under its new product Glass—smartphone functionality embedded in a pair of eyeglasses.
- Tableau portraits of London's bus stops.
- Perhaps the only thing better than Girl Scout cookies: Girl Scout cookie cooking.
- Overview of current food television finds amateurism isn't very interesting, unlike Emeril Lagasse.
- Sean Flynn of GQ profiles the Pope's personal butler who amassed and leaked confidential documents out of love for his boss.
- What happens when Annie Dillard turns you into a writer.
- Gay Talese’s outline/map for “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold,” written on a shirt board.
- See also: “Frank Sinatra Has a Cold."
- RIP Kevin Ayers, founding member of pioneering psychedelic band The Soft Machine.
- Scientists urge people in the rich world to become "demitarians" —eating half as much meat as usual, but stopping short of quitting.
- Proposal for sartorial innovation: the Reading Jacket, meaning a sport coat, but with a game pocket to store books.
- History of the phrase, "It's X's world, we just live in it."
- "Banksy Mural Chiseled Off London Wall, Reappears at U.S. Auction."
- Gallery of street art by Swoon, who compares herself to a bug with twigs on its back.
- Short film explores the "overview effect"—response to seeing Earth from space—through interviews with astronauts.
