March 21, 2013: Afternoon
- Nor could I compare Obama favorably to Bush...most Iraqi Kurds prefer the muscle of a Republican in office.
- Fifteen-year-old Nobel Peace Prize nominee returns to school after Taliban gunmen shot her in the head for supporting girls' education.
- Reid: "The time for watered-down and effectively meaningless gun laws is now."
- Paul Ford explains how it's possible for Silicon Valley to fill in the generation gap with money.
- A guide to life after Google Reader.
- When birdwatchers share their sightings online, fellow birders express privacy concerns for the birds.
- Israelis cope with a locust invasion by dining on them.
- Lagging behind Mexico and Japan, California's earthquake warning system is a software patchwork that alerts no one.
- Arizona lawmaker wants to assign public restrooms based on birth gender.
- In a survey of UK doctors, most have prescribed a placebo to at least one of their patients.
- Graphs of moods in literature depict Britain's stiff upper lip over the 20th century.
- Related: We English, you see, are masters at ignoring people we sort-of know.
- A rare cassette recording of a Smiths' rehearsal from 1983.
- David Brent is pursuing a music career and selling cleaning supplies.
- Mining the data to determine whether there's life after 50 for songwriters.