November 15, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Neuroscientists say creativity and mental illness share a similar degree of vulnerability, called "cognitive disinhibition."
- Argentina's central bank is losing more than $1B a month, with a reserve less than those of Romania, Nigeria, Angola, or Lebanon.
- "China's cake millionaire at home in his six castles."
- Once a Mad Men-like boys club, the CIA's female employees now number more than 50%.
- Japanese food chain lures female customers by designing a burger wrapper that lets them look pretty while chomping down.
- UK frozen food giant offers zeitgeist-y selections like chicken tikka lasagna and Rice Krispie-battered fried shrimp.
- Globalvisa.com aggregates the odd questions, requests, and excuses they've received.
- Chattanooga becomes the first city in the U.S. to have its own official font.
- Moleskine celebrates 100th anniversary of Swann's Way with sketches of esteemed literati reading Proust.
- Improv group surprises Katz's Deli with mass recreation of fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally.
- Cheever's first published short story.
- You can be a Maltese citizen for $865,000, but Malta is not the only country in which you can buy citizenship.
- Paleontologists find ancient pantherine fossil in Tibet—shaking the belief that big cats originated in Africa.
- Hubble image reconstructs the Milky Way as it would have been 11 billion years ago.
- Isolated from their ocean-dwelling descendants for 15,000 years, jellyfish in Eil Malk lake have a weakened sting.
- One of the best academic essays written about Melville.
