July 25, 2013: Morning
- Nearly 80% of previously arrested burglars, surveyed in 2011, said info drawn from social media helps thieves plan jobs.
- Private U.S. companies invest nearly twice as much as those listed on the stock market.
- Geneva offers extremely secure giant safe for wealthy art patrons' collections.
- China says no construction of government or party loutang guansuo—“official buildings”—will be permitted for the next five years.
- At least 78 people killed in a passenger train derailment in north-western Spain.
- Willie Louis, who named the killers of Emmett Till at their trial, dies at 76.
- Long Island fisherman found 43 miles offshore using his rubber boots as a life vest.
- Photographer shoots portraits of strangers committing acts of intimacy.
- The Awl's Choire Sicha becomes the face of the "new" Twitter trend: Favoriting posts rather than retweeting them.
- "Frustrated Novelist No Good At Describing Hands."
- From 1919, “one of the most humorous books in literature” was a novel written by a nine-year-old.
- Travel-guide nerd makes the case for including modern guidebooks in the literary canon.
- Evolution explains why the brain registers rejection, unlike other emotional injuries, like physical pain.
- Ian Hacking reviews DSM-5.
- Thursday game: See if you can name various cities based on their Starbucks' locations.
- NPR's sandwich critics review "gravy bread"—sandwich bread deliberately soaked in "meat juice."