September 22, 2011: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Scientist argues dyslexia is not a handicap, but a different kind of wiring with hidden strengths.
- Ahead of the Nobel Prize award announcements, Thomson Reuters issues its annual prediction of the winners.
- Another predication: America will have its first trillionaire in 98 years, give or take.
- There's still no good answer for why Europeans won't put ice in their Coke.
- Björk on her new Oliver Sacks-inspired album and how apps are influencing music.
- Obama campaign subject line or email from my aunt?
- Once a word with Biblical weight, the ubiquity of '"awesome" now renders it meaningless.
- Following its destruction in February's earthquake, Christchurch Cathedral rebuilt with cardboard.
- The last words of writers, including Poe, Joyce.
- Irving Penn's portraits of Capote, Dalí, set in a corner.
- The ongoing saga of Shaq and his devious IT guy.
- Despite crotchety emails, Ben and Jerry's forges ahead with Schweddy Balls ice cream flavor.
- Q&A with The Big Bang Theory's fact checker.
- Famous Disneyland rides, now departed.
- Where water should be, but isn't; a slideshow of the 2011 Texas drought.
- Eight lines that would have ended Star Wars on the spot.
