June 1, 2012: Weekend
- Architect Anish Kapoor assesses London's Olympic Tower.
- A refreshingly old-fashioned spat between linguists and the New Yorker about the purpose of a dictionary.
- Placement explains why Guinness bubbles sink instead of rise.
- Clamshell packaging declared worse than NYC parking signs, pull handles on push doors.
- Crab-tapping-at-my-window will probably go down in my personal life as the strangest way I've ever been woken up.
- Toxic plants and first aid advice, to review before your summer hike or picnic.
- Advice for science journalists.
- My mind kept dredging up this one fact: that people can die from lack of sleep.
- Once high fashion and bright colors, flight crew uniforms now signal trust and safety.
- A survey of single-game baseball careers.
- On star clusters, dwarf galaxies, and the birth of the Milk Way galaxy.
- Fascinating: Japanese designer introduces a wooden lightbulb.
- Prince Charles presents the weather on BBC Scotland.
- Portraits of metalheads.
- Song for our Friday night, song for your Friday night: "Why Did You Do It" by Stretch.