November 16, 2011: Afternoon
- Majority of business executives bring their own lunch to work, drive an SUV, part their hair on the right.
- Anger grows in Europe against "what is increasingly viewed as harsh German domination."
- Tourists in LA can't name three Germans, though an Austrian does come to mind.
- First covers from famous magazines.
- History and mystery of the high five.
- "Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women’s and Gender Studies."
- Social media legal negotiations and defriending rules of a couple breaking up.
- Medical notes from Bruce Wayne's latest checkup with his physician.
- Least exciting comic book action sequence of all time.
- Reminder: Today's your last chance to become TMN's reader judge for the 2012 Tournament of Books.
- "Roth’s legacy of writerly narcissism left a generation of young novelists with the wrong idea of what makes great literature."
- Beginning runners should avoid advice about technique and form.
- Science for why leftovers change flavor in the fridge, and some suddenly gain umami.
- Ruminations on the dual showerhead.