July 17, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Neo-Nazi black-metal musician arrested in southwestern France on charges of plotting a massacre.
- How the media is ignoring health complications and hyping the belief an abortion ban after 20 weeks is "reasonable."
- Related: "It's a rare condition, even more rare to have made it to 20 weeks. Quite literally one in a million."
- Danish mother with multiple sclerosis runs 366 marathons in 365 days.
- By explaining how its employees can survive on a minimum-wage salary, McDonald's highlighted just the opposite.
- Burning crayons, building a homemade bee suit, and other post-apocalypse life hacks.
- Related: Life hacks from 100 years ago.
- If his tweets are any indication, Jose Canseco is a science buff, or something.
- The science of the selfie.
- From the bikini to camo to pantsuits: Princess Leia, fashion plate.
- Heathers is in a lot of ways a product of its time, and a little too cutesy to be as subversive as it once was.
- Archaeologists in Poland find a "vampire graveyard," where corpses are buried with their heads between their legs.
- To be a musician today, you shouldn't have to accept the sexism, the bad deals, and the fact that you're a shill for alcohol.
- A page from Finnegan's Wake with spell-check turned on.
- What Manhattan would look like if it was inside the Grand Canyon.