July 12, 2012: Afternoon
- BBC World Service bids goodbye to its long-time broadcasting home.
- Air conditioning has helped spur economic growth, political development, and obesity.
- Kentucky state officeholders must swear they've never fought in a duel.
- Popular erotica localized for the USA.
- We wear pants because our ancestors rode horses.
- Vintage public-transportation etiquette guide.
- Stephen Harrigan, B-movie screenwriter, on his lowbrow prestige and thirst for approval.
- Survey of Noah Kalina's lovely somewhat-moving images.
- Paris as you've never seen it before: captured in odd moments with Google Street View.
- Photographs of machines disassembled and laid out pretty.
- Android smartphones now unlock with facial recognition.
- Paterno wasn't a monster, but he enabled one—a difference that doesn't matter to outsiders, and means everything to Penn Staters.
- Netflix's lost year: Inside story of the price-hike train wreck.