October 8, 2012: Afternoon
- In Maine senate race, Republicans call into question Democratic challenger's World of Warcraft hobby.
- NFL linemen don't like their new jerseys.
- How Baby Boomers took everything that was handed to them, gobbled it up, and destroyed the economy.
- Paglia on the history and future of capitalism-fueled art.
- Man who defaced a Rothko at the Tate says he's improved the value of the painting.
- One of Spain's greatest matadors survived a horrific goring last year—five months later, he made his comeback.
- Related: Seth Sawyers takes us inside Seville's bullring.
- Pilecki's mission was to allow himself to be arrested and, once inside Auschwitz, to collect intelligence.
- Photo evidence of New York filming locations for North by Northwest.
- Head of Russia's top budget perfumery discusses turning public fascination into fragrance.
- On handwriting's beauty, history, and sensory engagement.
- TMN contributing writer Michael Erard's Babel No More is now available in paperback.