October 7, 2013: Afternoon
- An uninsured physician's assistant faces a health crisis.
- In response to a grassroots movement, Swiss government to vote whether to introduce an unconditional income for all adults.
- During the 1950s, the average French person worked 300 more hours a year more than the average American.
- Inside the exclusion zone at Fukushima.
- Wendy Davis could win the Texas governorship—here's how Ann Richards did it in 1990.
- Scalia believes in God, the devil, and Seinfeld.
- An 8,000-year history of why we eat popcorn at the movies.
- The genius of Clancy's story...like Tolkien’s, comes from a firm commitment to letting the plot unfold logically once the initial hook is in place.
- Step-by-step instructions for a DIY archer's quiver.
- Amy Poehler remembers Chadwick's.
- How to determine who's quieter: a ninja or a Navy SEAL.
- Artist Alex Chinneck has replaced the front of an abandoned house with brick that appears to be sliding off the structure.
- How to complain to a hotel.
- Herman Wallace of the Angola 3, held in solitary confinement since 1972, dies at 71.
- "Welcome to the spaceship!" he said as we entered. Hwin calls most rooms spaceships.