June 19, 2012: Afternoon
- U.S. household net worth plummeted 35% from 2005 to 2010.
- The economic history of the last 2,000 years in one graph.
- Circulation drops at al-Qaeda's Inspire magazine.
- Doctors quiet the war on bacteria, as we learn more about the 100 trillion microbes that have evolved inside our bodies.
- The future of probiotics may involve customization in both intestinal flora and external environments such as the home.
- In order to survive a trip to Mars, Earth food has to be shelf-stable for at least a year—dehydrated if possible, canned if not.
- Shipping containers repurposed into coffeeshops.
- Why no one can kill a cat in Lovecraft's Ulthar.
- Matthew Baldwin: "H.P. Lovecraft, Author, Is Dead."
- Drunk texts from Wordsworth, Dickinson, others.
- Why we should diagram sentences.
- Our 2012 Reader Survey closes tonight—fill it out for your chance to win a TMN Prize Pack.
- Your generation is the first...to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians!
- This week in Madrid, Springsteen played for three hours and 48 minutes without a break—possibly the longest show he's ever played.