October 25, 2012: Morning
- U.S. oil production on track to surpass Saudi Arabia's, and imports are falling.
- Behold the coveted female swing voter of 2012: "Waitress mom."
- Survey finds academics are drifting further to the left, with only 11% identifying as conservative.
- Gluten-free food market expected to exceed $6.6 billion by 2017.
- Even equipped with solar panels, cows can't photosynthesize enough power to meet their daily needs.
- Reasons why most women and some men can't do a pull-up: too weak, too fat, too long.
- Study finds men and women can't be friends because men are convinced that everyone's attracted to them.
- Reporter brings her father along to cover a Frank Sinatra, Jr. concert.
- It's illegal to dance in Japan under laws that go back to when dancing was linked to prostitution.
- Brazilian woman sells her virginity to a Japanese man for $780,000.
- Danish man gets out of debt by becoming a gay prostitute and keeping precise spreadsheets and tax records.
- New iPad Mini and other tablets lack feature found only in the Atari Orgablet 2600: constant orgasm.
- Thursday short fiction: Charles Yu story about feeling other people's pain for money.
- Brief history of things said by Anthony Bourdain about other food television stars.
- During WWI, "trench magazines" were written and published wherever their editors could set up printing presses.
- Compliments for when you're in crisis and need a quick boost.