October 18, 2011: Afternoon
- Traffic accidents down over 40% in Abu Dhabi during recent Blackberry outage.
- Animal mating rituals don't translate well to barroom banter.
- World population, which hit six billion in 1998, to reach seven billion in a few weeks' time.
- Malaria deaths fell over 20% worldwide in the last decade.
- Female genital mutilation losing ground in West Africa, no place more so than Senegal.
- Regarding the break-up of Kim Gordon and Thurston Moore.
- Why we can't individually control our toes (but you can learn how).
- All videos are now in for [Science's] 2011 Dance Your Ph.D. contest.
- Bird-watchers look at birds; birders hunt them down.
- Libraries burn books because it's cheaper than giving them away, but it's still always performed in secret.
- Gourmet on pot brownies, pot-infused wines, and pot-chiffonade over nasturtium flowers.
- If kids can figure out not to drink 15 shots of espresso, they can go easy on the booze, too.
- TMN's Eric Feezell begins comedy-insider column for Comedy Central.
- Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner to read tonight outside Chicago.
- Fly Geyser, the coolest site in Nevada you're not allowed to see.