November 15, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- BP to pay $4.5 billion in Deepwater Horizon oil spill settlement and plead guilty to 11 counts of felony misconduct.
- Romney bookends his campaign with an apology to donors, blames the 47% for his loss.
- Playboy talks with Stephen Colbert about staying alive and being funny, despite everything.
- Kurt Cobain's handwritten list of his top 50 albums.
- Victor Kossakovsky films homeless people sleeping in ATM booths around Berlin.
- Caffeine shot 5-Hour Energy linked to 13 deaths, as well as heart attacks, convulsions, and a spontaneous abortion.
- At a Buenos Aires psychiatric hospital, patients broadcast a popular radio show.
- A new study claims even small amounts of alcohol during pregnancy can lower IQ.
- From "Wednesday" to "February," words that are spelled weird, and why.
- An analysis of Oregon's offense shows what makes it so incendiary isn't as novel as it seems—in fact, it's remarkably familiar.
- Newly declassified report shows how it would be possible to knock out the electric grid for large portions of the U.S.
- A visit to a small, dying farm.
- How we came to eat three meals a day—the Romans wouldn't approve.
- With seven days until Thanksgiving, it's time to pick up your "Happy Turkey-Day Surprise!" at the airport.
- Ludacris's "What's Your Fantasy," as told by cats.
- From 1982, an Atlantic article about writing on a computer.
