October 29, 2013: Afternoon
- China does its best to scrub away evidence—both physically and online—of yesterday's car crash in Tiananmen Square, but images get free.
- ABC scrubs clip and apologizes after child on Jimmy Kimmel Live! suggests killing everyone in China.
- Related: Excellent remembrance of "Tank Man" and how Beijing citizens kept the army out of the city for 15 days.
- Japanese travel agency will send your stuffed animal on vacation and will send you photos of it enjoying itself.
- Researchers find that romantic relationships are more likely to last when two individuals have fewer mutual friends on Facebook.
- Man arrested for engaging in the type of behavior found in romantic comedies.
- If a super villain wanted to create more unpleasantness and turn rational people into ranting lunatics, he would invent Twitter.
- Headlines from important 20th-century events rewritten to get more clicks.
- Gardening reduces the risk of a stroke or heart attack in people over the age of 60, according to a Swedish study.
- Students and teachers of ethical philosophy don’t seem to behave more ethically when their behavior is assessed using a range of real-world variables.
- Proto-spam: Scam letters from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
- As part of our Halloween traditions, TMN writers and editors complete a classic scary story.
- University publishers, which score a hit if a title sells 800 copies, survive by satisfying their sponsors' need to publish.
- Head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services apologizes for troubles with HealthCare.gov.
- Somewhat related: YouTube Compilation of Eddie Vedder falling down on stage.
- Danger Mouse and Stephen Gaghan win doubles-tennis tournament in front of architects at Big Lebowski house with a James Turrell piece inside.
- James Turrell's art is much improved when the artist personally compliments your drab clothing.