July 23, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- CNN on the royal baby: Kate is "brilliant" for having a boy and "really ticked all the boxes" in doing so.
- London mayor: Stop fretting about Germany's reunification—instead, copy it.
- Like Luke Skywalker was when I was seven, Brian Eno is a role model for 40-something me.
- Obama takes a stand against profiling based on appearance, associations, or statistics—except for drone strikes.
- New at Freakonomics: An ethics guide for government employees shows how to learn from colleagues' massive screw-ups.
- Technology often captures health practitioners' attention, but there's still no remedy like human interaction.
- Researchers study how our brains deliver dopamine for clues to what makes us introverts or extroverts.
- Because its value is based on mutually agreed-upon novelty, BitCoin is like art—though it's not as scarce.
- Detroit presents all archetypal buildings of an American city in a state of mummification.
- Geoff Dyer on smiling.
- In Tokyo, a PR company pays attractive women to wear ads on their thighs and walk the city for eight hours.
- This past Saturday afternoon, a Brooklyn bar held the First Annual Smallest Penis Contest.
- Cracker Barrel's decor provides a genuine picture of the general store, a cornerstone of American history.
- Bacon-wrapped riblet, shrimp corndog, and other new foods to debut at the 2013 Iowa State Fair.
- AppleScript is protestant with a lower-case "p," as iOS and much of OS X is catholic with a lower-case "c."
- Part of an exhibit by the Undocumented Migration Project: backpacks abandoned on the U.S. side of the border.
- Artist creates a single composite face from all the faces detected in a movie.
