July 2, 2012: Afternoon
- NFL fans prefer watching games at home; NFL responds by offering free wifi and special apps.
- Celebrate the iPhone's birthday by turning yours off.
- Graphic explains how to operate a rotary telephone.
- We mostly ignore wallpaper these days, but it has a long history of social mobility.
- Hysteria is not a necessary or inevitable condition of life; it’s something we’ve chosen, if only by our acquiescence to it.
- Cartoon: How Groundhog Day may have birthed our universe.
- Birds and wildlife in paper.
- Astrophysicist DeGrasse Tyson shares the most astounding fact he knows about the Universe.
- Anderson Cooper to Andrew Sullivan: "The fact is, I'm gay."
- The German babywiege, or “baby box,” is making a comeback in Western Europe.
- Functional machines specifically designed to be operated by mouth.
- From writing camp to post-production, new hit songs cost about $1 million to make.
- Long article on the value and anonymity of library music and library musicians.
- The entire David Lowery debate in one Spotify playlist.
- For those who love dancer Nonstop, a collaboration with beatboxer Hikakin.
- From 1927, a newsreel interview with Conan Doyle about Sherlock Holmes.
