June 25, 2012: Afternoon
- Fallows: By advancing party politics over legality, the John Roberts Supreme Court is reminiscent of Chinese courts.
- What killed us, then and now: More people dying of cancer means we're living long enough to die of cancer.
- On the hunt for disease, a man meticulously tracks all his bodily data—but overscreening reveals we all have something.
- Mathematician analyzes voice algorithms to detect Parkinson's before doctors can diagnose it.
- Paging Dr. Google: Am I a hypochondriac?
- The tenure war rages again: two views on whether it protects or stifles innovative thought.
- Pre-gentrification Williamsburg: a boneyard for stripped cars.
- It's a tremendous thrill to throw a bottle in the ocean and get a phone call from some guy in Bermuda saying, "I got your bottle."
- Label owners explain how to start a record label.
- Terry Gilliam's top animated films of all time.
- Beyond Mickey: Matthew Baldwin's animated films for grown-ups.
- The story behind the father-son duo running the world's largest sex-toy company.
- Slang like "tricked out" and "fly" is much older than we think.
- Charlie Schroeder on the expensive and surprisingly dangerous thrill of historical war reenactments.