July 6, 2012: Afternoon
- Job numbers fall short of expectations and barely improve over May.
- Falling labor mobility in the U.S. may reflect a more efficient market.
- Overhead photographs of Mexican workers carpooling.
- Indian police are still administering illegal, dangerous "truth serum."
- Inside the many conspiracy theories that say Arafat was assassinated.
- How to make sure you won't lose internet access on Monday due to malware.
- Hawking loses $100 bet over whether the Higgs-Boson exists.
- Mendelsohn: Public figures who haven’t followed [Anderson Cooper's] lead are still prisoners.
- Cooper's coming-out provokes questions in China related to its nonacceptance of homosexuality.
- Young athletes who once might have been gymnasts are now becoming rock climbers.
- Among other things, Louie offers the best depiction of how comedians hang out and relate to one another.
- Fun to rewatch: Morley Safer takes on Jeff Koons and contemporary art.
- The Times emails a fictional character to fact-check a review, and winds up printing a correction.
- Round-up of rapping farmers.