May 14, 2012: Afternoon
- Economists, scientists team up to find the gene that makes people good at business.
- Fraudulent Stradivari dealer was so persuasive banks provided him with millions in return for photocopied appraisals.
- Interview with a safecracker.
- Related: "With Dicks in, all 6 WA congressional Democrats favor repeal of gay-marriage ban.”
- Christian documents from the 10th and 11th centuries may describe the "Office of Same-Sex Union" and "Order for Uniting Two Men."
- To put it mildly, there's something of a New Yorker feature curse going around Hollywood these days.
- Former Booker T and the MGs bassist Donald "Duck" Dunn, who played himself in The Blues Brothers, dead at 70.
- Chris Herring on the nonsensical "jumble" of the New York Jets' locker room.
- Records from 1859's Great Auroral storm.
- Science hopes to solve coffee cup sloshing.