June 21, 2012: Afternoon
- Prosecutors in Norway call for mass killer Breivik to be deemed insane.
- Supreme Court puts off deciding whether rock stars have a right to drop the F-bomb on TV.
- Supremes' momentous healthcare decision could be announced today. Or not.
- Belgian academic describes being tortured in Syria.
- Horrible stories of American prisons driving inmates to madness.
- George Plimpton's son on the voice of his "sweet old excited dad."
- Data on where and how Americans spend money on alcohol.
- Report on what makes us laugh.
- P. T. Barnum on 19th-century rapping in Connecticut.
- Report on "kites" in prison—threats, reminders, mash notes, dinner invitations.
- Now that transistors are 22 nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, to make them smaller we need to let them make mistakes.
- Reading Rainbow is back—as an app.
- Roundtable on Wes Anderson's fetishes and whether or not the new movie is any good.
- Report from the mining life.
- Christoffer Relander's multiple-exposure pictures.