November 21, 2013: Afternoon
- White paper finds worldwide income inequality falling consistently over four decades, especially in the last decade.
- Ballet dancers now think of themselves as brands, causing havoc among companies.
- First people to hear Joy Womack's allegations about the Bolshoi Ballet were seated in a small Virginia library.
- Study of foxes shows that facial beauty in foxes—and possibly in humans—is "a reliable marker of underlying desirable behavior."
- New female-friendly app lets women anonymously review men who are their Facebook friends.
- Online-dating data find that men in all racial groups prefer to date other races over their own.
- Even during Linsanity 2.0, the Asian American community needs Jeremy Lin as a rallying point.
- R. Kelly visits the Rolling Stone offices and sings love songs about dolphins and sandwiches.
- Profile of Marion Stokes, a Philadelphia librarian who singlehandedly recorded 35 years of TV news in her spare time.
- Biologists speculate that children’s "famously finicky attitude to eating up their greens" is a smart reaction when so many plants in the world are toxic.
- After much study and scrutiny for political thought, the Aztecs remain "hard to love."
- Website searches online sex-cam streams and re-broadcasts their feeds when the performers are absent.
- Final volume published of The Plum in the Golden Vase in a high-quality English translation—China's epic erotic novel that was composed during the late Ming Dynasty.
- Firm offers extremely expensive service that guarantees putting your book on the New York Times bestsellers list.