March 20, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- This week marks the 21st anniversary of Hezbollah's 1992 Israeli embassy bombing; modern Europe should pay heed.
- Hamas launches program to teach Hebrew in Gaza schools, with neither a strategic nor conciliatory agenda.
- Study finds truck drivers who consume caffeine are 63% less likely to crash than drivers with no caffeine.
- Using "optogenetics," investigators can now effectively direct symphonies of light-induced neural activity inside the brain.
- Forty-year-old stroke patient has no trouble reading, writing, or understanding language, but can't type text messages.
- Steubenville demonstrates how social media increases "the bystander effect"—more people who witness something, less likely any are to respond.
- FDA relaxes the standards all chilled, blended fruit beverages must meet in order to be labeled a smoothie.
- There is nothing inherently “stigmatizing” about a psychiatric diagnosis; for many, learning the name of their disorder may relieve years of anxious uncertainty.
- Beloved thinker Thomas Nagel now despised by other thinkers for his new book.
- "Christopher Hitchens’s lefty publisher begged from him—and then betrayed him."
- Remembering Hitchens in his roles as a children’s book reviewer, cynical ex-hipster, and stand-up comedian in Branson, Mo.
- Quarterfinals continue in today's Tournament of Books, judged by Gawker's Caity Weaver.
- President Obama picks Indiana to win the NCAA men's basketball March Madness.
- To any who believe attractive women often marry unattractive men while attractive men more often marry attractive women—it's all in your head.
- The YKK on your zipper stands for Yoshida Kōgyō Kabushikigaisha, or "Yoshida Manufacturing Corporation."
