July 22, 2011: Afternoon
- Videos of the aftermath from today's bombing in Oslo.
- Extremely captivating: Yemen on the brink of hell.
- Report on the taboo issue of men being raped as a weapon of wartime aggression.
- Joseph Heller, Robert Gottlieb, Candida Donadio, and how Catch-22 came about.
- Terrific visualization of the United States' debt.
- Plastic surgery in the U.S. increased 77% in the past decade; 218,909 procedures for teenagers last year.
- Archive of Joel Rice's very good "Flip" column about skateboarding.
- Notes on stormannsgalskap, or, madness of great men, "particularly common among media barons."
- Chart for the weekend, with mimic ocotopus: "Southeast Asian Sea Life."
- See also: erasers that evolve from ape to man.
- People submit all types of reasons for why particular numbers are beloved.
- Pinsky on book-reviewing.