June 20, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- U.S. releases list of 46 "indefinite detainees" at Guantanamo, supposedly too dangerous to release.
- Economics theory ties the Great Stagnation to two big results of World War II: industrial capacity, and a lot of dead men.
- Researchers make quantum computing more stable; information that formerly lived for 100 microseconds now can exist for hours.
- Scientists say Cyprus castle’s toilet still contains parasites from crusaders' waste.
- Social network in Homer’s Odyssey indicates the story is based, at least in part, on real events.
- Worshipping Hellenic gods in modern Greece.
- See also: Paintings of economic fatigue in contemporary Athens.
- Early 20th-century photographs of American cities taken from a system of up to 17 kites.
- Dry Nebraska reservation protests its liquor-store neighbors that sell 5 million cans of beer annually—mostly to impoverished tribal residents.
- To name new cocktails, today's bartenders don’t need lawyers, they need lexicographers.
- Numbers prove you're more likely to be murdered on the streets of Washington D.C. than in prison.
- Praise for D.C.'s best Chinese restaurant, ever.
- America's states, cities, and landmarks mapped with the literal meanings of their official names.
- World's smallest museum located in an alley in New York City.
- Ode to the cream linen suit that Jake Gittes wears in the opening of Chinatown.
- For male dark fishing spiders, death is the unavoidable consequence of transferring sperm.
- A lot of the prettiest bras and camisoles and bustiers are too small or designed for a premenopausal body, as if women of a certain age no longer have a fantasy life.
