September 19, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Since 1990, Australians "have enjoyed the longest period of economic expansion unbroken by recession of any developed country ever."
- The difficulties of representing the sea on stage in Early Modern England.
- British people use ["bloody"] quite a lot less than Americans think they do and a great deal less than British people think Australians do.
- In an observation of teaspoons left in communal tearooms, 80% disappeared over the five-month study.
- See also: "Is He Cute or Is He British?
- Smiths pun TK: Morrissey's autobiography is happening after all.
- Why Grimm is so grim.
- Rand Paul's fawning Vogue profile, like Assad and Huntsman before him, assures his presidential hopes are over.
- Nadal is back at the top of his game—a look at how he got there and who wants to knock him off his pedestal.
- Analysis of landmarks from the Rocky II training montage shows Rocky ran 30.61 miles.
- A grand unified theory of Pixar movies: It's a struggle for balance between humans and nature.
- It's a great headline, but no, Google doesn't plan to abolish humans' death, but rather extend their lives.
- Timothy Leary's unpublished works, acquired by the New York Public Library in 2011, were opened to the public this week.
- Encoded in [the amplituhedron's] volume are the most basic features of reality that can be calculated.
- California's crackdown on human trafficking revealed a surprising truth: Some don't want to be rescued.
- Sexting, shame, and suicide.
