July 16, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
—
- What happens when we catch Snowden.
- Making sense of China's GDP growth: Thanks to Wikileaks, we can guess the numbers are artificial.
- Most fake negative reviews of products on the web are written by devoted customers who want to vent.
- A catalog of natural and man-made sinkholes.
- Anti-immigration Italian senator insists comparing a black minister to an orangutan isn't racist.
- An unemployed Londoner, Gonshaw had already served three prison terms on egg-collecting charges.
- A survey shows there are more domestic servants in London than there were 200 years ago—and they're not just working for the wealthy.
- Tokyo spa introduces "snail facial" in which organically fed snails crawl over patron's face, leaving a trail of slime.
- Swimming monkeys, walking catfish, giant snails of cultish origin: Florida has more invasive species than any other state.
- Related: Because no one else seems willing, Erik Bryan defends his much-maligned hometown of Tallahassee.
- The passion and the melancholy: Dancing the tango and being Finnish go together as naturally as ham and eggs.
- Why Thom Yorke pulling his songs from Spotify won't help new artists: Like movies, music now relies on tentpole acts.
- Radiohead's manager: "I...look at new technology developments such as Spotify as a good thing."
- For the 25th anniversary of Die Hard, a compendium of essential links.
- Shaq holding things.
- A few weeks later, on Mother's Day, nightly visitations started.
