October 1, 2012: Afternoon
- Yemen's president praises the accuracy of U.S. drone strikes.
- Mondale's prep partner remembers the '84 debates.
- How to tame your brain's emotions and make better decisions.
- The mind suck of air travel.
- Shteyngart to American: "Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose."
- Related: Hugh Ryan travels by rail to escape the internet.
- Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath.
- Guardian editor takes his son to an punk graphics exhibit, where they stumble upon a 35-year-old photo of him.
- HIV has weakened immune systems across Africa, opening the door to a deadly Salmonella epidemic.
- Responding to Justice Dept. pressure, states end segregation of the mentally disabled from the outside world.
- Scientists predict global warming could shrink fish by up to 24%.
- Cambodia wants its 10th-century statue back.
- Andy Hinds speaks out on being caricatured as an example of "the end of men."
- An oral history of Cheers.
- The league was fighting a bigger fight...the war between capital and talent.