November 26, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Consumers turn to private insurance-market websites to buy coverage while healthcare.gov remains troubled.
- Private company purchases 150 acres of Detroit, with plans to turn the derelict East Side into farmland and orchards.
- Though its strategies have proven ineffectual, no one can blame the USPS for trying to save itself partly with stamps.
- Human babies are 75% water, just a little bit wetter than bananas.
- Saturday marks the end of storm season—and it may be the last season for a while that New York City experiences without a hurricane.
- Maps show how different drugs are enjoyed in different states; substance abuse is worst in California and Rhode Island.
- There is no statistical proof that doctors enjoy a better quality of life before death than the rest of us. But research indicates they are better planners.
- Americans have gotten better about racism, yes, but we keep relearning the wrong lesson.
- Profile of David Zwirner, top contemporary art dealer.
- Pictures of Socotra island, "the Galapagos of the Indian Ocean."
- Photographs of three nebulae: the Eye of God, the Second Eye of God, and the Eye of Satan.
- Three weeks before Lolita arrived in bookstores, Dorothy Parker published a story in the New Yorker, titled “Lolita,” about an older man, a teen bride, and her jealous mother.
- Born 100 years ago, Benjamin Britten's music—written to be understood, and not avant-garde—is only now coming into focus.
- If artists make more than three times from concerts as they do from recordings, are streaming and theft just record label problems?
- Round-up of 17 "ancient" websites that still work despite being "abandoned."
- Studies in French of cats and mirrors.
