May 25, 2012: Holiday
- New research shows Mars "has life's building blocks," though there's still no sign of fossilized SUVs.
- The hidden costs of being a New York City cabbie.
- After inadvertently transporting shellfish across the ocean, deep-sea scientists warn against removing organisms from their habitats.
- Unlike private firms, the USDA doesn't need permission from a court to start collecting on unpaid debts.
- Today's bulging backpack is a far cry from the bag's minimalist, adventurous roots.
- Book jackets aren't dead in the Kindle age, we just need to refocus on function.
- Marie Curie, Segway founder James Heselden, and other inventors killed by their own inventions.
- The cooler me: A dad finds his doppelgänger.
- RVs have long been bound up in the American myth of freedom and mobility and independence, with allusions to the covered wagon, that symbol of the Western frontier.
- The British Film Institute's painstaking effort to restore nine of Hitchcock's silent films.
- Wodehouse's comic gift: repressing unpleasantness.
- Coach Taylor makes a guest appearance at Buzz Bissinger's book reading in Austin.
- Trailer for Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby.