October 17, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Oldie but goodie: an honest in-flight talk, explaining why, for example, phones are banned.
- Hostility not found in Cairo, but plenty of violence against women.
- Number of women giving birth up five percent on Valentine's Day, down 11 percent on Halloween.
- Day at the Congress for Aesthetic Vaginal Surgery.
- In Hong Kong, it's easy to get wrapped up in the idea of success, less easy to have good ideas.
- Ivy-league colleges now India's safeties.
- Before Nostradamus became a symbol of prophecy, he was a pharmacist who tried to fight the Black Death.
- Oceanographer Craig Smith on the massive ecosystem that thrives when a whale dies.
- Short film: whale after death.
- Will Self praises wind turbines.
- Round-up of best Amazon reviews.
- Dr. Seuss-inspired remake of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Call Of Cthulhu."
- In Our Time on Byron's poem/travelogue "Childe Harold's Pilgrimage," which made him famous.
- New book suggesting Van Gogh was murdered found to be unconvincing.
- Didion says goal of the new book about her daughter's death "was to get it off my mind."
- Monday poem: "Windchime," by Tony Hoagland.
