November 5, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- More areas where women in the U.S. earn more than men: nearly all part-time jobs.
- Radiolab finds a disturbing possibility for why Kenyans dominate long-distance running: genital mutilation.
- Google employees tell all.
- Every night in Memphis, around 150 cargo jets land and take off again, transporting the world's cargo.
- Also: The FAA may allow electronic devices during takeoff, but not all airlines are on board just yet.
- Playing in the NFL is a bad job.
- Texas voters will decide whether to spend $70 million on the country's most expensive high school football stadium.
- A look at the prolonged demise of quicksand in movies—once a go-to trope, it's all but disappeared.
- Cronenberg: "I'm a more intimate and personal filmmaker than Kubrick ever was."
- Teddy Wayne on the Lampoon, "some of the bleakest and most controlled furious humor in American letters."
- Radio 4's birdsong of the day criticized for featuring non-British, migratory species.
- See also: From 1958, Le Merle, the story of a bird that loses its parts, only to find more of them.
- Rules for black birdwatchers.
- The most popular image on Reddit at this very moment.
- This is not just a geek thing. Everywhere lately, the here and now is the place to be.
