May 30, 2012: Afternoon
- Scientists observe killer bees evolve to be more gentle than defensive if they live on an island.
- Bluefin tuna off California have trace radiation from Fukushima—but it's not as scary as it sounds.
- Reluctant suburbanite comes to terms with life outside the city line.
- Hague gives Charles Taylor 50 years.
- Nigerian-American journalist discovers her skin color is the story in southern Turkey.
- White actors in Bollywood enjoy job security as villains.
- Wish-of-a-lifetime group sends elderly African-American woman on a train journey that Jim Crow never allowed.
- The average Congressperson speaks, on the House floor, at the level of a high-school sophomore.
- Laura Miller on literature's earliest alien lifeforms.
- Pulp-novel covers transformed into three-dimensional tableaus.
- Primer on self-referential words and linguistic paradoxes.
- Artists' statements sans art.
- Examples of Barthes' diaries.
- How a poorly executed 1850 murder changed the history of toxicology.