July 22, 2013: Afternoon
- UK now requires ISPs to automatically block pornography, unless subscribers request otherwise.
- Tumblr bans more search terms to curb porn on its iPhone app.
- Pakistan struggles with polio epidemic, but anger over drones hampers prevention efforts.
- The race speech Obama didn't make: Detroit's bankruptcy is the culmination of a century of misdeeds.
- Detroit as failed state: still better off than Brazil and Kuwait, worse than Mongolia and Romania.
- Related: Mark Binelli meets the motorcycle men working hard to save Detroit, one fiend at a time.
- New technology can identify individual wild wolves—with 100% accuracy—based on their howls.
- Lonely Planet's glory days are a thing of the past...but the way it all happened makes it seem all the more sad.
- What Claude Levi-Strauss can teach us about modern food fads.
- Why we make healthier menu choices when we find out how long it takes to walk off the calories.
- Mapping McDonald's locations uncovers America's commercial landscape, where convenience meets math.
- The mathematical reality is that wealth is becoming more important, relative to income.
- A high-end cellar that flooded during Sandy claims customers' wines survived—but that may not be the case.
- The Longform Guide to Crime Writing in Rolling Stone.
- Bert Trautmann, captured Nazi paratrooper who became a Man City soccer legend, dies at 89.
- See also: A season's look at a London soccer team whose soul had to be rebuilt from scratch.
- Boston Bruins cordon off their logo to prevent Bieber from posing with it.