June 11, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Assertive extremists have joined the rebel ranks in Syria, trapping many Syrians in a vise.
- Blair: There is a problem within Islam, and we have to put it on the table and be honest about it.
- Video footage shows the formation of a gigantic rotating supercell.
- Heatmap of the areas of New York that benefit the most from Citi Bike.
- Hacker who helped expose the exultation of rape in Steubenville raided by FBI; may receive more jail time than rapists.
- Elderly Americans who live with people under age 18 have lower life evaluations than those who do not.
- Study of college students and posters shows how introspection sometimes interferes with gut feeling as a reliable guide to what we should do.
- Doctors link childhood CT scans to later cancer risk—since 1996, scan rates have increased dramatically.
- Concerned that toy guns desensitize children, San Francisco elementary school holds a buyback program.
- Interactive chart of birthdate frequencies from 1973-1999.
- England's historic Spectator magazine puts its entire archive—from 1828-2008—online for public browsing.
- Metadata, 1772-style.
- In the new installment of "Love Your Dress," how Robert Downey Jr.'s outfits in Restoration stole the show.
- In the Philippines, men of all incomes go to great lengths for beauty treatments.
- Must-see painting shows on view this month in Los Angeles, New York, Atlanta, Seattle.
- Neil Young finds a CSNY bootleg at a record store in 1971.
