November 19, 2012: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- The data crunchers who won the 2012 election.
- If you're so determined, how to hide email communication from prying eyes.
- Related: Privacy Settings for Bigamists.
- A challenge to Paris: Reclaim your sparkle.
- Raymond Carver's OkCupid profile, edited by Gordon Lish.
- Electronic tattoos, water purified with oil, and other world-changing ideas.
- From 1913, Charlotte Perkins Gilman explains why she wrote "The Yellow Wallpaper."
- In a new set of illustrations, Carson Ellis channels medieval Norwegian mothers.
- A comic-book version of what happens at R. Kelly's Trapped in the Closet wrap parties.
- Work from Dr. Seuss's day job: advertising illustrator.
- Ikea apologizes to East German political prisoners for forcing them to make furniture in the '70s and '80s.
- Debunking "neuromyths": We use 100% of our brains, and environmental stimulus aids lab rats, not humans.
- Watch the trailer for PROSPECT, "a coming of age story about a teen girl who is with her father on a toxic foreign planet."
- Archaeologists unearth 10,000-year-old home in Scotland.
- Researchers discover Tycho Brahe did not die of mercury poisoning, as previously believed.
- Civil War surgeons almost always had chloroform to anesthetize patients before an amputation.
- Charts presented on the U.S. Congress floor.
