July 20, 2011: Afternoon
- Climate change arguments from 1799.
- Signs welcome all to a DC-area yard sale "except for LGBT people, illegal immigrants, and muslims."
- How a series of dots and a memory stick spawned a game with all the markers of a holy war.
- Photos from inside China's fake Apple Store.
- Secret Service visits artist who commandeered Apple Store computers to take photos of squinting customers.
- From 1913, surreptitious snaps of British suffragettes.
- Asking someone to "be a voter," rather than simply "vote" can increase turnout by at least 10%.
- Armed with a suit of armor and a treadmill, researchers posit why the French lost at Agincourt.
- Hitchens rouses American atheists.
- Neuropathologist who studies athletes' brains shocked at the damage to an NFL star's specimen.
- A new book delves into Freud's love of cocaine, which he used to "make bad days good and good days better."
- In New York's Chinatown, rice wine bootlegging booms, as both beverage and elixir.
- How Glenn Close's dad stopped the Ebola virus in Zaire in the '70s.
- A "huge factor" in Saudi Arabia's discontent: a youth population bulge with 40% unemployment.
- Part one from a 1975 Rolling Stone chronicle of Patty Hearst's year as a fugitive.