May 3, 2012: Morning
- New issues released from al Qaeda magazine, with a quiz and humor features along with killing advice.
- Dubai is recovering thanks to the Arab Spring and The New Silk Road.
- Americans call Pizza Hut's pizza-cheeseburger hybrid an abomination—but the target market is the Middle East.
- Will Self eats noodles in London.
- Notes from the only debate between France's final two presidential candidates before Sunday's election.
- Measurements show student brain activity plunging during class.
- Rage against the conspiracy that says browning onions only takes 10 minutes.
- New York now has an indoor food-truck court in a 19-floor building.
- Notes from the 19th-century trial of Albert J. Tirrell, the sleepwalking killer.
- For his next project, performance artist who grew an ear on his arm hopes to grow a second skin of microbes.
- Video of The Scream being sold for $120 million at auction yesterday.
- Reddit members use anonymous accounts to confess their worst crimes and secrets.
- Seven-page oral history of Friends, as told by its creators.
- Emotions from the advertising life brought to life with animated GIFs.
- Reading novels is good for you.