October 17, 2012: Morning
- Obama wins debate by seven points and triumphs in the likability race, but Romney tops on economic issues.
- Fact-checking the debate's disputed claims and arguments.
- Lovely chart shows the idiocy of blanket statements about presidential elections.
- Binders Full of Women, the tumblr.
- Movie trailer and story of the country chef who became Mitterand's cook.
- Only 43 women have been awarded a Nobel Prize, out of 862 people and organizations who have been named laureates.
- Cosmetics boss says if a product is hot in Korea, it will be a global success.
- Graph shows where millionaires live—52% in America and Japan, only 2% in Switzerland.
- Nearly 25 percent of Americans don't know that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain.
- Beautiful pictures of the Faroe Islands, halfway between Norway and Iceland.
- Frank Sinatra's "My Way" is Britain's favorite funeral song, "despite being a ditty of ineffable banality."
- American funeral parlors rely on a single man for their “semi-spiritual” ambient music.
- Art created from NASA's data sets.
- Howler now available for American soccer and/or magazine nuts.
- Every hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.
- Will Self didn't win the Booker Prize (Hilary Mantel won again), but he sure knows how to take a photo.
- Story of why a big-money prize to build a human-powered helicopter has gone unclaimed for more than 30 years.