November 25, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Last year there were 223 cases of polio; to reach zero, we need to spend billions and fight the Taliban.
- Health authorities struggle to convince America that there's a post-antibiotics crisis coming soon.
- See also: the "happy-hour virus," for when your computer needs to be temporarily infected so you can go out for a drink.
- List of 10 "secret speakeasies" around America currently pouring drinks.
- Hunt for the origins of Maine's champagne, coffee-flavored brandy, the state's top-selling spirit for more than two decades.
- Fifteen-year-old robs a party and hurts no one, and receives a mandatory 118 years in prison, without parole, plus six life sentences.
- For Harper's subscribers only, unfortunately: "Jump Juan Crow," by Duncan Murrell.
- Your Monday headline of the day: "Parasite Eats a Fish’s Tongue—And Takes Its Place."
- America’s health-care challenge could turn out to be more manageable than anybody thought a few years ago.
- Annotated analysis of a 1945 escape from the first modern prison, Eastern State Penitentiary.
- Father and son spend two years painting a pastels-on-glass adaptation of The Old Man and the Sea.
- Sometimes a father's emails can seem like poetry.
- Statistician can make good firefighters if they realize that "quenching fire is followed by the disappearance of smoke, and not vice versa."
- In the tournament Mr. Carlsen won to qualify for the world championship match, he played more like a computer than any of his opponents.
- Spike Lee talks about his signature double-dolly shot, where the actor and camera are inextricably connected.
- Portraits of passengers viewed through plane windows presents "a miniature study of airplane psychology."
