November 2, 2011: Morning
- Iowa uninterested in Herman Cain's sexual-harassment past.
- Is Jon Huntsman fluent in Chinese? The answer appears to be no.
- Obama gets to say things Cameron can't—Brits reach for Shakespeare, Americans for Lincoln.
- Scientists tell subjects that fingernail-on-chalkboard sound is contemporary music; subjects hate it anyway.
- MRIs prove we're bad at delaying gratification, and it shows in our spending habits.
- Brazilian Miguel Pupo wins surfing's cold-water classic series.
- Plane lands at Warsaw airport without landing gear, which refused to drop.
- Paris magazine firebombed after publishing issue guest-edited by the Prophet Muhammad.
- Stephen Colbert breaks character while pronouncing funny names.
- The death of specialty coffee shouldn't be blamed on K-Cups or Nespresso; the blame rests on coffee people.
- At least 12 studies have shown that sugar does not make children hyper.
- We learn how to be mad, the same way we learn how to be male or female, or how we learn how to participate in society.
- Probably a frequent reaction to Kepler's laws of planetary motion.
- Urology journal, in the name of science, publishes image of "face in testicular cancer ultrasound."
- IKEA Shanghai used as lonely-hearts club by seniors, and IKEA's patience has pretty much run out.