June 13, 2012: Afternoon
- Bombings across Iraq kill 84, injure nearly 300 in the deadliest day since U.S. troops withdrew.
- Hatching new methods to recycle valuable aluminum cans—it's not as easy as you may think.
- Forget 2012: Mankind will seal its ecological doom in 2025 if it doesn't shape up.
- Russia says it isn't providing Syria with weapons that can be used against peaceful demonstrators.
- Rafael Nadal's $375,000 watch recovered after being stolen from him while he slept.
- Sweden's Twitter account, open to all citizens, takes turn for the worse with woman's talk of Jews and vaginas.
- The development of animal penises, from dinosaurs to fleas.
- Solo drinking cup's lines revealed to be measurements for pouring liquor.
- Portraits of people drinking wine made with wine stains.
- Note on historically important hyphens.
- Loose conversation, with pictures, between Geoff Dyer and color-photography master Alex Webb.
- Fun long article on the evolution of Tetris.
- Ten bets that you can always win.