July 15, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Wireless carriers hope to increase usage by building smart diapers, slippers, bovine fertility monitors.
- The deceptive simplicity of feedback loops, now ever more present through plunging technology costs.
- Researchers find baboon beta males enjoy fewer mates, lower stress.
- Indonesian scientists spot long-legged Borneo rainbow toad, last seen almost 90 years ago.
- As Friday Night Lights ends its run, cast and crew interviews reveal how the series came to be--and nearly didn't.
- Video: All the y'alls from Tami Taylor.
- New Yorkers who wish to avoid eye contact can gaze at ad-free sidewalks.
- How to catch a falling child.
- Medical journal editorial argues putting severely overweight kids in foster homes is a better solution than obesity surgery.
- Borg, McEnroe play charity match, comment on tennis's greatest rivalries, including their own.
- Before Mel Blanc was Bugs Bunny, he was a nice Jewish boy doing impressions of his immigrant neighbors.
- Asked to play doctor, Times reader successfully diagnoses black widow bite.
- An herbicide once thought to be environmentally friendly is now believed to have killed thousands of trees.
- Interviews from 1972 and 1974 with poet James Dickey.
