March 19, 2012: Afternoon
- Giant rock trucked to LA to prove the city's not a cultural backwater.
- After 59 years and 11 presidential administrations, athlete Jim Thorpe's family still battles over where to bury his body.
- Navy leaders to administer breathalyzer tests to sailors with no probable cause.
- Child's reaction to watching TV with commercials for the first time demonstrates why TV is broken.
- Siblings are hardwired to specialize in separate niches to avoid competition.
- Trio of German brothers find promising American web businesses and clone them internationally.
- Kosher-sex author runs for Congress.
- Today in the Tournament of Books: Grantland's Jay Caspian Kang on baseball and walking.
- Worth remembering: Kang on the highs/pains of gambling addiction.
- Classics purchased by the French from 2004-2012—French authors take top five, then comes Agatha Christie.
- Confessions of a cookbook ghostwriter.
- Lovingly curated guide to the Swedish chef.
- Dutch still-lifes made from contemporary food and objects.
- The shapes of future fruits are unknown, though it's clear there will be more of them.
- Bus tickets from the 1930s.