May 9, 2012: Afternoon
- Dilemma for the Outer Banks: Preserving wild horses could threaten birds and nesting turtles.
- State of the vaccine effort.
- Journalism is being replaced.
- Blogger uses the Journal to speak out after the Chronicle of Higher Education fires her for mocking Black Studies.
- Brief, accessible piece on the state of nihilism—laugh tracks optional.
- Inside the kitschy decor of the modern Italian mobster house.
- Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues.
- Musician and producer Steve Albini lets Reddit users ask him anything.
- Why we need music: it defines the best of us.
- What Tina Brown's currently reading.
- Related: Brown's musings on Heydrich remind us of the wonderful HHhH, "the only essential piece of World War II fiction in years."
- Fake survey data from Fake Pew Research.
- They pry the mind open: Jonah Lehrer on how cities incubate creativity.
- Charles Murray dissects creativity, past and present.
- Everything you need to know about Disneyland's secret restroom, currently unavailable to the public.
- New Yorker who grew up sharing a bed with her mother finally gets to sleep alone.