September 11, 2013: Morning
- Obama delays Syria military vote he was certain to lose in favor of exploring Russia's proposal for international monitors.
- The lessons of Weiner and Spitzer.
- From 2009, Tom Junod's haunting essay about the photo of the man plummeting from the World Trade Center.
- Poems by Auden, Whitman, and Colson Whitehead that relate to our struggle to memorialize Sept. 11.
- The most "vain" skyscrapers—buildings with the highest amount of unoccupied space—in the world.
- At "death cafés," strangers gather to talk—even laugh—about death over tea and cake.
- Egypt tourism post-Arab Spring.
- People who speak languages with strong future tenses tend to be more responsible about planning the future.
- The privatization of environmental preservation is "a recipe for disaster."
- The paucity of ethnic diversity in craft brewing.
- Indians are genetically predisposed to midriff weight gain; clothing brands respond to rising obesity rates accordingly.
- Close-ups of the most intense facial expressions made by tennis players during the U.S. Open.
- George Harrison and Bob Dylan play tennis in 1969.
- Interview with Jhumpa Lahiri.
- Szechuan peppers make your lips numb because of a molecule that "vibrates" nerve endings.
- Comic strip illustrates the cognitive process of fear.