November 28, 2012: Afternoon
- By the numbers: Hurricane Katrina versus post-tropical cyclone Sandy.
- Sea levels rising faster than earlier projections.
- Mapmakers delete an island that never existed and whose origins date to 1875.
- If every U.S. state declared war against the others, which would win?
- Painful memories surface while raising an Irgun Jewish militia ship sunk in 1948 by Israel's army.
- Foreign Policy asks readers to help it field test A Reign of Missiles, a game based on the Israel-Hamas conflict.
- Related: When the world ends, MetaFilter will be there.
- The rumor about Curiosity's major discovery is a misunderstanding perpetuated by our desire to believe.
- It has been incredibly difficult to square this cruel and twisted notion of the Boy Scouts of America with my own experiences.
- Lululemon rips off a design from TMN's Jennifer Daniel.
- Yes, you can be sued for committing libel on Twitter and Facebook.
- Responses from NYU students who discovered they could email the entire student body.
- The mushers...swallowed condensed milk by the spoonful, then poured water into the emptied cans and drank the dregs.
- What Raymond Chandler has to do with Kendrick Lamar and sexual desire.
- The average age of the Rolling Stones is older than the average age of the U.S. Supreme Court.
- How MIDI changed music.