September 18, 2012: Afternoon
- Why we should be concerned about a maritime dispute between the world's second- and third-largest economies.
- Who comprises the 47%: those who are subject to payroll tax, the retired and elderly, and the poor.
- Americans who supposedly don't pay taxes live in states that mostly swung Republican in 2008.
- Voter photo ID laws are a solution to in-person voter fraud—which is a problem that doesn't really happen.
- Typically a Democratic stronghold, residents at the San Remo on the Upper West Side have donated twice as much to Romney as Obama.
- NYC voters complain about unreadable primary ballots printed in seven-point type.
- How to hack voters' brains.
- Sandusky to be sentenced on Oct. 9, faces hundreds of years in prison.
- Gladwell on Sandusky and the psychology of child molesters.
- Letting nonprofits become businesses could be a way for capitalism to do some good.
- William Gibson on why the least important thing about sci-fi is its ability to predict the future.
- British doctor employs manga comic to show surgeons how a drug could save hemorrhaging patients.
- Evidence suggests ancient humans collected bird feathers for ornamentation.
- Food researcher traces the arc of human evolution along our predilection for fermented foods.