October 10, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- With neurochemistry proving surfing's transcendence, Sartre, Camus, and Freud can sure carve.
- Neuroscience dissenter takes out the "neurotrash."
- Belief or disbelief in a Being is a matter of faith.
- Violent clashes in Cairo mask quiet moves by Egypt's military against democracy.
- True crime: Serial killer stalked Nazi-occupied Paris and killed 27.
- Highly prized "Mayan" relic skulls probably made by German craftsmen.
- Thousands of Somalis march to denounce Islamist guerilla tactics.
- Syrian activists seek to out informers on Facebook, and the witch-hunt isn't harmless.
- Myanmar dares to offend China, putting teeth to reform promises.
- Changes to immigration laws leave the harvest unpicked in Alabama, with citizens not wanting work.
- Amanda Knox's "hip swivels" illustrate the danger of thinking someone "looks guilty."
- Jennifer Daniel's flow chart for you to help one man, and maybe thousands, beat cancer.
- Fuck Yeah, Chinese Myths.
- Thirty-one days of Halloween: tales from around the world of the unquiet dead.
- Ten best Woody Allen jokes.
- Appreciation of crappy bookstores.
- Whitey Bulger's downfall didn't come from the police, but from an Icelandic beauty queen and an abandoned cat.