June 20, 2012: Afternoon
- List of countries said to be treating slavery victims as criminals or ignoring them entirely.
- Guatemalan vacation ruined by gang-bangers—how the War on Drugs sustains the drug problem.
- Assange takes refuge in Ecuador's embassy in London to avoid extradition to Sweden.
- Peruvian-made pisco attempting a comeback in America, where once it ruled San Francisco nights.
- Praising leisure: What it sounds like to call for an end to growth.
- Conclusion of long Andy Murray piece: Lendl coaches Murray in order to improve Lendl's golf game.
- Profile of Mary Kom, world-champion boxer and India's gold-medal hopeful.
- Behind the scenes at a McDonald's food photo shoot.
- In many languages blue and green aren't distinct—blue doesn't appear in the Illiad, Odyssey, or original Hebrew Bible.
- Recent Radiolab episode on color.
- Pictures show process behind a new Mark Schoening painting.
- Show to see near Boston: "Common Threads: Contemporary Photobooks."
- Notes on the "little-known, poorly understood" philosophy that is Muppet Theory.
- Leaps in science sometimes depend on airport security allowing (or not) a trachea in a box to board a plane.
- Stanford guide to undergrad dating, with a foreward by Philip Zimbardo.
- Gossip found to be useful as social communication, unfortunately also as blackmail technique.
- The egaliatarian demand shouldn’t be that we need more black pop stars or female pop stars, but to question why we need elite superstars at all.
- The NPR intern post about never buying music that has everyone in music talking.