July 12, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Why black colleges might sue the Obama administration: The rhetoric and the policies don't always match.
- Toshi Seeger, who married Pete nearly 70 years ago, died this week at 91.
- PBS's Off Book explores the question of what happens to human brains in a world of artificial intelligence.
- The most dangerous man in the world, in Berlin’s humble opinion, is he who thinks he has discovered the true meaning of life.
- A study of island biology shows more than evolution is at play—often, it comes down to pure chance.
- Ryan Gosling on the pork industry.
- Sen. Blumenthal of Connecticut is the first elected official to write an op-ed about student loan rates, in GIFs.
- Margaret Atwood's success, boiled down to six key points.
- A baseball fan will see 17 minutes and 58 seconds of action over the course of a three-hour game.
- A new first-aid kit can be used with one hand—because that's of course why you're using it.
- Shark attack expert on Sharknado: "Total bullshit. Quote me."
- For your travel to, your time around, and your journey back from a body of water, a selection of our longreads.
- Calvin and Hobbes remind you how much summer is left.
- The inventor of "Twister" dies at 82.
- Grown Up 2 concerns "urine, feces, vomit, flatulence, and all the other beautiful colors of the excretory rainbow."
