September 17, 2012: Afternoon
- There are many reasons for the Muslim protests—since none are election talking points, we won't hear them.
- More than 20 years of files reveal Boy Scout officials shielded troop leaders suspected of molestation.
- Frank Rich spends a week embedded in conservative media.
- From 2004, Oliver Griswold tests his die-hard liberal beliefs and goes on a conservative media diet for a month.
- Rick Perry was a fervent believer in victory-lab techniques, but that couldn't help him string coherent sentences together.
- The tardigrade is an eight-legged microscopic creature that can survive in space, which is why some believe they're extraterrestrials.
- On shock art: When it's the goal, it will never be enough.
- After multiple setbacks, Shell postpones plans for Arctic drilling.
- Creator of the world's largest hand-drawn maze can't find anyone to attempt it.
- I guess I walked up to the huddle, I thought I was in the huddle, but I was three feet behind the huddle.
- Crunching the data of today's popular music, patterns show songwriters are becoming more efficient.
- Wood researcher finds treating a violin with special fungi makes it sound like a Stradivarius.
- Unhelpful self-help.
- Artist preserves the craft of kimono dyeing.