May 20, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- If we take the future at all seriously...then we need to leave a big percentage of the planet's coal and oil and natural gas in the ground.
- Working-class white citizens in South Africa face levels of deprivation as bad as black South Africans faced under apartheid.
- Denmark's Emmelie de Forest bests competitors from 26 other countries to win the 2013 Eurovision Song Contest.
- Anthony Lane on Eurovision 2010.
- The harrowing story of how, in 1959, William Rankin piloted his F-8 Crusader into a violent storm, then parachuted over 65 miles.
- Deciphering the actions of Qworty, and other Wikipedians who "revenge edit."
- At the New School, a suicide-note writing class.
- Related: How you start an email reveals a lot more about your intentions than you know.
- The [shipping] container has been more of a driver of globalization than all trade agreements in the past 50 years taken together.
- In Ancient Egypt, July and August were peak conception months.
- Thousand-year-old coins found in Australia suggest the continent may not have been founded in 1770 by James Cook.
- Early entries in the 2013 National Geographic Traveler photo contest.
- Takuma Nakahira's photos of Paris in the '70s, along with his 1973 essay, "Looking at the City or the Look From the City."
- Without the paint tube, invented in 1841, the French Impressionists would have been less able to find inspiration outside their studios.
- Advances in beer container tech.
- Hitchens: "Not everybody likes wine as much as I do."
