November 14, 2011: Afternoon
- At a military funeral, comrades talk about proper preparation of last wills and testaments.
- Reporter war-games an Israeli strike on Iran and things get ugly.
- Six million people die each year from smoking—more than from AIDS, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.
- Soon China will be where manufacturers look for cues—a place we visit to go shopping.
- Excerpt from a book about bad Wikipedia edits.
- Answers to "Why is U2 so popular?"
- Brian Eno on the difference between architects and gardeners, and how he sees himself and other composers as the latter.
- Haruki Murakami explains the novel-writing lessons he learned from jazz.
- R. Crumb on rejecting The New Yorker after they rejected his cover.
- Story of the evening Brian Epstein met the Beatles.
- Artist prints out and installs every public photo posted on Flickr in 24 hours.
- Cellist loses memory, but is able to learn more music.
- Story of the man who loved buffalo, longed to find them in the wild, finally found one, and killed it.
- YouTube analysis reveals dogs chasing their tails a widespread and funny sign of pathological behavior.