November 15, 2011: Morning
- Jordan king becomes first Arab leader to tell Syria's Assad to step down.
- Moscow quickly announces its opposition to the Arab League's suspension of Syria.
- Herman Cain struggles to oppose Obama's reaction to Gadhafi's fall.
- NYPD evicts Occupy Wall Street.
- Hours prior to police action, AdBusters suggests now's the time for Occupy to declare victory and go home.
- Remote-control helicopter footage of Independence Day riots in Warsaw.
- Beautiful sound sculptures by Swiss artist Zimoun.
- Researchers distract students playing games, conclude constraints aid creativity.
- Lehrer: fMRI scans can't tell us we love our iPhones, but they have proved that the human brain loves looking at pictures of itself.
- Today Panksepp is undoubtedly the world’s foremost authority on rodent tickling.
- Sandusky regrets showering with children; lawyer says that he's just a jock and that's what jocks do.
- Profile of James Deen, star for those who want to watch "a young, heterosexual, nonrepulsive man engage in sex."
- Gopnik on Montaigne, his singing voice, and cooking.
- For newspaper junkies: long take on the fall of the Mercury News.
- The brutal truth about Penn State.