November 7, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- U.S. economy grows in the third quarter contrary to economists' expectations.
- Report card says America's students have made incremental improvements in math and reading since 2011.
- Only a million of Puerto Rico’s 3.6 million people are employed; the population shrank four percent in the past decade.
- Compared to Europe, America is said to woefully lag behind in the field of decorative radiators.
- Former high-school and college football player strives to save the game from itself.
- In coffee's next wave, shops will become more automated—and better—and we should prepare for cyborg baristas.
- Lifestyle-minded people are now Instagram-minded people.
- TMN's Paul Ford on the "sophisticated, supple, and even revolutionary technology at work" behind Twitter.
- See also: TMN's Paul Ford offers 20 thoughts about death.
- Ice cream made from jellyfish luminescence will cost you $220 per scoop.
- In America, the invention of lunch also served "to ennoble the evening meal, leading to the semi-sacred status the family dinner holds today."
- If an elephant can make a good painting, then who needs an MFA from Yale?
- See also: Painted landscapes that magnify globs of oil paint a thousandfold.
- Very short fiction of the day: "Home Run," by Steven Millhauser.
- Related: Excellent animations of famous paintings.
- Video tour of Michael Jordan's Chicago mansion, for sale at around $29 million.
- Eros in philosophy, where we must "meet the other on their ground and in their own terms and try and bring them around."
