May 8, 2012: Afternoon
- America is "obscenely comfortable in conflating black with crime."
- Responding to "Why Black Women Are Fat."
- France's center-right party stares glumly at new paths in a post-Sarkozy future.
- Part one of "Our French Connection"—figuring out what Americans think of the French right now.
- Related: The whole story currently available as an e-pub for $3.
- Carnegie Mellon computer scientists use Foursquare to map "livehoods" rather than neighborhoods.
- YouTube isn't just the immediate past, it's the pre-internet past.
- Young writers today avoid writing what they know because they only know SUVs in the suburbs.
- Erin Geyer investigates myths about serial killers, concludes that they could be basically anyone.
- Story of one man's man-boobs, and how he came to embrace the name Tits.
- Krulwich: Ike's highway system killed the popularity of hats.
- Comparison: Downton Abbey is essentially Battlestar Galactica with corsets.
- The biblioracle needs your last 5 books in order to immortalize a recommendation for your next read.
- Large-scale relief prints made from trees' cross-sections.