June 25, 2012: Morning
- Joy and despair after Mohamed Morsi was declared winner of Egypt’s first presidential election.
- Parable for the economic recovery found in a story about co-op babysitting.
- The future of city life is underground—for power plants and utilities, if not for people.
- Title of world’s “biggest” currency goes to the Kuwaiti dinar, which is now worth about $3.58.
- Profile of a videogame company with zero bosses.
- Profile of a bed-and-breakfast at sea.
- Labeling genetically modified foods as such could hurt the poor.
- The global meat industry may find itself in the same position as the makers of fax machines a generation ago.
- Following Littell in the London Review, William Finnegan on super violence in Mexico.
- Business is booming for men's cosmetics—marketing focuses on cigar boxes, not "makeup".
- How to look at art on the iPad.
- Self-proclaimed "most amazing" bowling story ever.
- Collection of "true films" to see before you die.
- Terrific episode of "In Our Time" in case you too have found it difficult to make it through Ulysses.
- Brief profile of Radiolab's Jad Abumrad.