July 26, 2013: Afternoon
- Halliburton to plead guilty to destroying test results following the Deepwater disaster.
- Global warming and overfishing are driving some lobsters to cannibalism.
- Scientists discover dwindling bee populations are not necessarily due to insecticides, but a less solvable problem: fungicides.
- Study finds a full moon negatively affects sleep quality.
- The most up-to-date New York City Roach Map.
- An astounding poem by Patricia Lockwood.
- From the San Francisco Chronicle's archive: When the Grateful Dead was busted at 710 Ashbury St. in 1967.
- New in "Press Pause": What Watertown teaches us about sourcing in journalism.
- Major League Baseball partners with Forest Service scientists to learn how maple could be made less brittle.
- The truth about before-and-after fitness photos: You only need an hour between shots.
- TripAdvisor under fire for failing to spot glowing reviews of a nonexistent restaurant.
- Scientists create a false memory in a mouse, remind us human and mice brains aren't so different.
- Pale sand may be most prized, but sand of any shade has a hotline to our senses.
- People who move to richer countries are unlikely to be happier—economic status is tied to happiness.
- David Simon: "Tony Bourdain, you lying sonofabitch, you owe me a motherfucking cronut."
- Supercut of SNL actors breaking character.
- High school popularity predicts future success—except "popular" just means being liked, not being elite.
- TheOnlyOne costs $100,000, but it's so much more than a T-shirt.
- Tumblr of the day: "Rappers and Cereal."