November 13, 2013: Afternoon
- Death panels institute new cholesterol guidelines that will require all Americans to ingest statins.
- Jobs in photojournalism have reduced 43% in the past decade—at three times the rate of editorial staff layoffs.
- Scientists find that reindeers' eyes change from gold to blue in the course of a year to adapt to cold weather.
- Now that a better economy allows individuals more time to introspect, job satisfaction and morale plummet.
- PEN survey finds 85% of writers avoid controversial topics in their work out of fear of government surveillance.
- The original NSA whistleblower.
- Scientists find half the expected amount of sunspots this solar cycle, dubbing it the weakest cycle in 200 years.
- Mariana Trench once again named worst place to raise a child.
- From 1910, predictions of what humanity would achieve by 2000: color photography, the ability to produce rain at will.
- The inner life of a sewing machine, in a gif.
- Francis Bacon triptych of Lucian Freud sells for $142.4 million at Christie's, ousting Edvard Munch's "The Scream" as the most expensive piece ever sold at an auction.
- Photos of people explaining art to other people.
- The existence of our species is an accident, yet our view of the universe shows we continue believing otherwise.
- In NASA's long-awaited Cassini photograph of Saturn and its moons, Earth is but a tiny dot 900 million miles away.
- How the speed of light compares to the speed of other very fast things.
- Japanese natives on the difference between transatlantic dialects of English.