May 15, 2013: Afternoon
- Scientists announce $1 vaccine for rotavirus infections—which kill half a million children worldwide every year.
- Politicians endlessly debate debts and deficits with little regard for the human costs of their decisions.
- Reacting to Time's cover story, discerning whether it's even possible to measure narcissism.
- Why Jimmy Connors shouldn't be talking about Chris Evert's abortion in his new memoir.
- On being groped on the subway.
- Some do walk in Los Angeles, but the challenge is discovering where it's viable.
- Related: How to walk in New York.
- See also: How to piss off every New Yorker in 36 seconds.
- Artist displays £175,000 worth of ecstasy in new works at a London gallery.
- Cary Grant's tie dimple, and how to tie one on yourself.
- Public calls foul after Disney Barbie-fies Brave's Merida.
- OED asks public to help locate a "mysterious, possibly pornographic, 19th-century book."
- Reviews of Dan Brown's Inferno.
- Related: One-star reviews on Amazon of critically acclaimed novels.
- The Canberra Skywhale, a city-commissioned hot-air balloon resembling a whale, flies over Australia's capital city.