July 30, 2013: Afternoon
- There have been few openly gay ambassadors—and that's absolutely about to change.
- For the past 10 weeks, oil has been leaking into Alberta—no one's saying how much and no one knows how to stop it.
- "Medical marijuana advocates become unlikely opponents to pot legalization efforts."
- From the May 1965 issue of Holiday, Jack Kerouac takes a road trip with his mother.
- Researchers find gum-disease bacteria in Alzheimer's patients' brains, suggesting a link to dental hygiene.
- Interactive map shows in which countries hepatitis kills more people than HIV.
- London Fire Brigade blames Fifty Shades of Grey for jump in calls for being trapped in handcuffs.
- The first people in line at the Odd Future show in Williamsburg.
- A baseball luminary takes aim at sabermetrics, citing TWTW—"the will to win"—as the only stat that matters.
- Related: Baseball survived the 19th century by shedding its teetotaling reputation and embracing its seedier elements.
- Tennis—"potentially EPO heaven"—may be the next sport to face doping allegations.
- Emily Nussbaum: It also originated the unacknowledged first female anti-hero on television: ladies and gentlemen, Carrie Bradshaw.
- Nussbaum and Alyssa Rosenberg on how Sex and the City attacked the premise that privilege ends in success.
- See also: Paul Ford imagines Carrie, et al., as a Beckett play.
- Interview with the designer of the HeadShave.
- TV commercial fanfic.