June 27, 2013: Afternoon
- New York prosecutor, after lengthy re-investigation, says capturing the Friedmans was the right thing to do.
- Praise for attorney and activist Mary Bonauto, mastermind of the legal strategy that eventually led to DOMA’s collapse.
- Michelle Bachmann responds to DOMA in manner suggesting she endorses marriage between one man and many women.
- By “redefining” marriage in this way, a precedent has been set. It will be easier now—at least in principle—to change the definition of marriage again in the future.
- Related: Collection of long-form writing on gay rights.
- Lower demand for college-educated workers is pushing everyone in the job market downward.
- Demographic gap between online and traditional learners is shrinking; online learners prefer online institutions closer to where they live.
- Broadway producers test shows in production by asking audience members to measure the quality of scenes and songs.
- Editor telephones random numbers in small American towns, asking what people are doing for the Fourth of July.
- Number of annual overdose deaths from narcotic painkillers is four times higher than it was a decade ago.
- The physics of car traffic.
- Defending champion Roger Federer falls out of Wimbledon shortly after organizers asked him to stop wearing orange-soled shoes.
- Photographs of stuff William Burroughs left behind in his apartment.
- Scientific studies into why humans prefer to copulate at night—possibly circadian, possible just convenient.