September 13, 2011: Afternoon
- Mosquitoes and other pests can now be engineered to exterminate themselves.
- Forget hurricanes—the East Coast is in for longest, strongest allergy season on record.
- How faulty memory, alleged wrongful conviction, and a subpoena battle drove away Northwestern's star prof.
- Welcome to college and sorry to burst your bubble.
- Economist studies football, finds coaches mostly make wrong decisions at the critical moment.
- Why do we give novelists like Günter Grass passes the rest of us would never get?
- Robert Birnbaum cites the latest crop of must-read books by authors you may not know—yet.
- "The feral otaku or savage nerd [is] going to emerge in every subculture that attracts privileged and obsessive males."
- Head of Shaolin monk school on iPads, Wu-Tang Clan, and Chinese food so good you'd leave the order.
- Attempt to mock American Apparel's plus-size model photo search ends up winning the contest.
- Wine Spectator reviewer ditches fine wines for cheap for one reason: surprise.
- Klosterman interviews Noel Gallagher.