November 28, 2011: Afternoon
- Military folk keep their jobs secret to avoid hero-worship, being looked on as victims, or simply the questions.
- Pakistan's PM says "no more business as usual" with U.S. after NATO aircraft kill two dozen Pakistan troops.
- Publishers quite aware that, for the first time in human history, Earth has a common language.
- How Susan Kare personalized computing by designing famous Mac icons.
- Ken Russell's guide to movie-making.
- Foreign athletes and entertainers avoid Britain to dodge its appearance tax.
- Number of girls in rural Indian state's school triples after female students get free bicycles.
- Q&A with Björk on technology and guitars.
- Toy uses Google to drive cross-country.
- Earth's ideal destination is Portfoliopolis—that always-pleasant land of architects' dreams.
- No international laws or agencies exist to police trials of new transgenic organisms. For the most part, scientists and biotech companies can do what they want.
- Winners from Marine Photobank's "Ocean in Focus" conservation photo contest.
- Tom McCarthy begins new series for the Guardian showing writers' computer desktops.
- Alain de Botton's six books that gave him wisdom, and why (some) Schopenhauer is "perfect to read after a break up."
- Physicist Richard Feynman on doubt.