July 19, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- How the new league of Texas Democrats could return their party to power.
- On behalf of New York, Louis Black gives Texas the middle finger.
- An interactive guide to the big ideas and biggest blunders of New York's mob of mayoral candidates.
- Joe Biden—who might be the next president of the United States—is the most misunderstood man in Washington.
- Afghan customs agents obstruct the U.S. withdrawal, demand $1,000 per undocumented shipping container.
- To save her son from prosecution, a mother says she destroyed stolen artworks by Monet, Gauguin, and Picasso.
- The world's slowest-moving drop—a bit of tar falling—caught on film.
- Despite the long history of [electroencephalography], the marketing world was slow to embrace it as a research method.
- As part of a 30-day weight loss challenge, Dubai will pay its obese citizens two grams of gold for every two kilograms they lose.
- How astronauts don space suits.
- Colorado town to consider paying bounties for shooting down aerial drones.
- Changing a flat tire while driving—don't try this, ever. Really, don't.
- Car dashboards after crashes: "vivid, intense, and somewhat disturbing."
- During the 20th century, rooming houses became extinct—but they filled a need, and now they're coming back.
- What passes for Modernism now is simply an aesthetic, not an ethic.
- Worth a revisit: Amir and Streeter's Prank War.
