June 18, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Hillary: I [understand] what people's political problems are, even in authoritarian regimes, because everybody's got politics.
- Not only is food aid ineffective in helping nations in conflict, it can prolong the violence.
- NYPL lunch exhibit to feature working Automat—though it will dispense recipes, not food.
- Researchers find a high-cholesterol diet helps those with a fatal disease that destroys nerve endings in the brain.
- The women who helped uncover Watergate.
- One day left to complete our 2012 Reader Survey for your chance to win a TMN Prize Pack.
- Woody Allen has an iPhone, but only knows how to use it to check the weather and the Huffington Post.
- Ronan Farrow tweets biting Father's Day message.
- For the sake of American tennis, Nic Brown hopes Sam Querry avoids glass tables.
- Unmanned U.S. "space plane" lands in California after a 469-day secret mission.
- From 1939, a look at American patriotism and its purportedly xenophobic roots.
- Follow: For the next six years, live tweets of WWII as the news happened, to the date and time.
- The popsicle was invented by an 11-year-old who left his sugar water concoction outside.
- A visit to the Museum of Failed Products, where A Touch of Shampoo yogurt and Pepsi Breakfast Cola now reside.
- Bot inventors compete in a Turing test to see whose creation can fool a judging panel into believing it's human.
- Two Twitterbots are playing out Zork I in its entirety.
- Dennis Mahoney chats with a chatterbot.
- How a jump rope sees the world.
- It is perhaps the most obscene book ever written, but it is not a lascivious one; it is, almost dismally indeed, the opposite of that.
