November 11, 2013: Afternoon
- The situation in the typhoon-stricken Philipines continues to worsen; officials estimate 10,000 have died.
- Well aware of the genocide that created Bangladesh, the post-Watergate U.S. chose to ignore it.
- Presidential elections repel the well-adjusted...then they strip those oddballs of what is left of their self-respect.
- Unconventional history book folds out into 24-foot-long panoramic drawing of WWI's Battle of the Somme.
- Brian Eno interviews Grayson Perry.
- Study on violence in movies finds today's PG-13 is the equivalent of 1985's R rating.
- Most sex scenes in movies [give] visual evidence of the fact that the characters have sex at a given point in the story.
- In the case of Bieber and prostitutes, "sex workers and celebrities alike should exercise a discretion."
- "Bitchiness" is natural—even necessary—in academia.
- The '80s "Valley Girl" speech lilt may have originated with Scots-Irish who immigrated to California in the '30s.
- See also: From the 1940s, "Redwood Saga" salutes America's logging and sawmill operations.
- Historical black-and-white photos realistically colorized in Photoshop.
- A study of nearly 300 Canadian disaster songs, from "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" to "Fall Into the Ocean."
- See also: A profile of the last man to survive a Great Lakes shipwreck.
- Part of the Internet Archive's scanning center burned down last week, and they're asking for your help to rebuild.