January 14, 2013: Afternoon
- How to fix India's male-superiority complex.
- Photos find the link between India's textile and dance traditions.
- Report from the beheading of a Sri Lankan maid in Saudi Arabia, where sexual abuse of domestic workers "seems not uncommon."
- Llewellyn Hinkes-Jones, "Privatized Prisons: A Human Marketplace."
- Beijing residents urged to stay indoors as air pollution reached record levels this weekend.
- GunBroker, an eBay-like auction site, boasts more than 1.8 million registered users and 2.5 million unique monthly users.
- We think of Stephen Hawking as an isolated genius, but his success is largely due to tech and collectivism.
- Cory Doctorow remembers internet activist Aaron Swartz.
- Anonymous hacks MIT website for their apparent complicity in Aaron Swartz's death.
- How to think like Sherlock Holmes: Renovate your brain attic and be sure to make it very big.
- The Atlantic remembers when it first published Jack London and asked him to change his byline to "John."
- Glenn Beck to build Ayn Rand-inspired community/theme park/reality TV center.
- A non-meat-eater encounters nonplussed locals on her trip to Emilia Romagna.
- How to salt-cure pork in a tiny New York apartment.