June 29, 2012: Afternoon
- More than 100 million Americans don’t go to the dentist because they can’t afford it.
- Sixty percent of you would reach into a toilet bowl to retrieve your smartphone.
- Mennonite urine is four times lower in BPAs than everyone else's.
- This week's TMN Weekender: Healthscare.
- Artists and gallery owners are suddenly slaves to publicists.
- Sarah Manguso's valuable advice to young writers on how to build a career.
- Daughter interviews mother who was a secretary at Playboy in the '60s.
- Women who have managed to be both mothers and top professionals are superhuman, rich, or self-employed.
- Though companies are still "the earliest stages of deep analytics," your e-reader is reading you.
- Kim Kardashian's teenage sisters to write a young-adult novel in whose film version they could later star.
- Michael Chabon on his "year of diving languorously" into Finnegans Wake (sub. req.).
- It's useful to acknowledge that certain kinds of literacy can also themselves be a means of oppression.
- Nadal's defeat at Wimbledon yesterday was many things, but not inexplicable.
- Sport has no problem with Black Swans. Nadal was admirably philosophical in his post-match comments.
- Defending women's grunting in tennis.
- Lindsay Robertson reports on having a magical moment while holding hands with Bill Clinton.