September 20, 2011: Afternoon
- FBI reports violent crime down for fourth year in a row, upending belief that more unemployment means more murder.
- Middlebury College tortures incoming freshmen by having their admissions essays acted out by upperclassmen.
- Cache of 1920s vocational school student records sends reporter into reverie.
- How Whole Foods uses fresh flowers, ice, and Pantone 12-0752 bananas to prime consumers for shopping.
- Seawater makes us party harder, citrus makes us clean up, and other examples on how smell rules our lives.
- The dangers of a three-year-old asking a scientist why he showers.
- Re-imagined constellations—e.g., Cassiopeia transformed into Handgun—could attract young people to science.
- New genetic tree of the mollusk shows brains so handy they evolved four separate times.
- Some mighty fine fake science.
- Things Apple is worth more than.
- Porn studio prepares for 2012 by building underground bunker.
- As Two and Half Men kills off Charlie Sheens, let's remember Bonanza did it first.
- Did the West make newspapers or did the newspaper make the West?