July 28, 2011: Afternoon
- Mubarak's trial, for corruption and ordering the killing of protesters, to proceed next week in Cairo.
- Lessons from Iraq: If you have an hour to save the world, spend 55 minutes understanding the problem.
- Chart: Top 12 African countries by GDP.
- Comparing Big Mac prices finds Chinese yuan now close to fair value against the dollar.
- Indian officials gush over Pakistan's chic new foreign minister; productive talks credited to youth and glamour.
- Grand visions in Mongolia, where luxury retailers turn profits despite livestock outnumbering people 16 to 1.
- Video: Tour of one man's 2000-plus-pair collection of rare Nikes.
- Among trends, "science is going back to the scale of life—that middle ground of minute energies and high complexities."
- Related: "In the Event That You Have Accidentally Swallowed the Higgs Boson."
- Mark Bittman's guide to doing a Maine-style clambake.
- Painter analyzes digital ruins—"Cyber-archeology"—of 1993's video-game hit Doom.
- Animator will make videos from your voicemails.
- Ode by Maud Newton to Raymond Chandler's furious essay-screed "Writers in Hollywood."
- Playlist made for various Haruki Murakami novels.
- A silly drawing that still makes us laugh: Alan Moore vs. Demi Moore.
- Video: Nobel-winning physicist Richard Feynman craves orange juice while playing bongos.
- Actors describe their death scenes.