October 10, 2013: Afternoon
- Single chart shows the Republicans' shifting demands before they refund the federal government.
- See also: Cartoon explains the purpose and colorful history of the debt ceiling.
- The government shutdown is basically the best news ever for money launderers.
- Just because you don’t want to pay for health insurance now doesn’t mean you’ll be able to bit-torrent it for free when you need it later.
- Conservation efforts in India are proving successful; 100 rare Asiatic lion cubs sighted in Gir area in the past few days.
- Road photographs of contemporary Europe show what a continental tour looks like now.
- Marvel's comics show diversity, but its screen products are lily-white, male-dominated, and straights-only.
- Following an outpouring of criticism, the Washington Redskins change the team’s name to the DC Redskins.
- Why is a nation with a black leader and a future white minority dreaming of white heroes and their white god allies?
- Ohio has become "a laboratory for what anti-abortion leaders call the incremental strategy" of getting closer to outlawing abortion.
- Alice Munro wins Nobel Prize for literature; selection of stories available from the New Yorker.
- More than any major cultural product, the book has retained its essential worth; publishing is thriving.
- Skimpy interview with psychiatrist suggests women kill more "creatively" than men.
- MIT scientists recreate icy Martian clouds on Earth in "a big, three-story-tall thermos."
- Professor and former Teach for America corps member will no longer write Teach for America recommendation letters.
- Intersection of modernism and food photography.
- Round-up of sneaker-related things to expect in the NBA this season.