October 30, 2012: Afternoon
- No matter how the election turns out, everyone will have known it all along.
- The proper balance calls for the care of a skilled surgeon, excising cysts from the [voter] rolls in an atmosphere of quiet calm.
- How Hurricane Sandy could change the election: by forcing the candidates to discuss climate change—finally.
- Trillions of oysters once populated the shoreline from DC to Boston and helped protect New Yorkers from storm surges.
- Vintage newsreels of devastating storms.
- Former Brat Packer Andrew McCarthy is now a travel writer.
- Related: Sarah Hepola interviews Ilan-Mitchell Smith, "the other one" from Weird Science.
- Tetris is so successful because it takes advantage of our desire to make things fit.
- Psychopaths aren't always serial killers; in fact, they can have positive effects on society.
- Psychopath Test author Jon Ronson on competitive eating.
- Report: "Majority of Americans Now Eating One Continuous Meal a Day."
- How a scam artist has convinced scientists that his contraption is a nuclear energy breakthrough.
- Japanese airport closed after workers discover an unexploded bomb from World War II.
- Manitoba children surprised to learn children elsewhere don't have to evade polar bears while trick-or-treating.
- How we made The Shining.