May 10, 2012: Afternoon
- Ode to the secretary-spy who went to Saigon, and was the first American woman killed there.
- Not-comic comic: Memories of being raised by an abusive mother.
- Design-based solutions for water management in India.
- Green-energy excitement of the day: Power from onion waste.
- Philippe Starck designs gadget that makes you instantly drunk for less than a second.
- Reporter seeks out cooler version of himself to get high with and contemplate a non-bourgeois life.
- Study finds self-disclosure so pleasurable, we're willing to pay for it.
- Bowling alleys are disappearing from churches—a survey and brief history.
- Two dozen horses die at America's racetracks each week, and the danger is growing.
- Facial recognition software may be able to identify unknown subjects of famous paintings.
- Pictures of limited-production vehicles.
- Live map of global book sales is oddly entrancing.
- See also: Readers/writers pick best audio books for a road trip.
- And in case you aren't already obsessed: The Tobolowsky Files, in which actor Stephen Tobolowsky shares stories from his life.
- List of top 50 Wikipedia articles as ranked by "interestingness."
- Number one on that list: The Marree Man of South Australia.
- History of buttermilk, more or less.