July 27, 2012: Afternoon
- Iranians boycott milk and bread to protest prices of basic goods rising daily.
- Odds of war with Iran now at 36%.
- Legal strategy behind Assange's cunning move into the Ecuadorian embassy to avoid extradition to the States.
- Botanists still unsure of how exactly plants know which way is up and which way is down.
- Human-powered helicopter takes flight.
- Robot with high-speed hand, high-speed vision never loses to humans at rock, paper, scissors.
- Tumblr for those who like geometry and pictures.
- The code "451" could become a Bradbury-honoring internet error message highlighting censorship.
- Helicopter "bombs" London with poems to kick off UK's largest-ever poetry festival.
- Long, thoughtful musing on what we see when we read.
- Nora Ephron essay on inheriting her Uncle Hal's money and writing When Harry Met Sally.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola begins new column to analyze the pageant of beauty found in Dallas.
- TMN's Matthew Baldwin speed-dating tonight in Seattle.
- In case you forgot: Sex and the City redone as a Beckett play.
- Massive trove of material after food lab writer answers 233 questions about cooking.
- We take lunch for granted; it wasn't even a regular meal until 1850.