November 2, 2012: Afternoon
- Consider giving to the American Red Cross to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
- Before Sandy unleashed its fury...there were people warning of this exact scenario, and they were only sometimes heard.
- Federal budget cuts threaten the hurricane tracking capabilities that helped the East Coast prepare for Sandy.
- Staten Islanders ask Bloomberg to postpone the marathon and send them help instead.
- When Sept. 11 unified Staten Island.
- The ultimate disaster-proof home: built to withstand earthquakes, fires, terrorism.
- Astronomers capture "the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone."
- We are made of stars: animated gif portraits of our human galaxies.
- Chomsky on neuroscience, AI, and why both are headed in the wrong direction.
- So you know: Fingerprints last a lifetime and can even grow back.
- Medical advances may march on, but post-surgical pain relief has been the same for the past 60 years.
- Providing additional, irrelevant info—like a picture—may be the best way to present the illusion of truth.
- Elephant learns to imitate Korean speech by inserting its trunk into its mouth.
- Learning a foreign language is like learning a sport.
- Navy archaeologists believe they've located the cave from Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- On the campaign trail, the candidates kissed a lot of babies—the babies didn't always kiss back.
- The definitive guide to post-Halloween candy trading.