September 23, 2013: Afternoon
- The U.S government seems to be taking the terrorist Twitter account seriously.
- Why you should visit Iran.
- Considering whether America's gun problem warrants outside intervention—it's so bad it could be considered a humanitarian crisis.
- Neuroscience looks beyond pharma, devises ways we can alter neural circuits to solve our disorders.
- Issus coleoptratus is a tiny hopping insect with the only known mechanical gears in nature.
- Plimpton asks writers how they want to go.
- Vanity Fair explains the 1940s via Salinger and tattoos.
- Related: Pinup Vikki Dougan—aka "The Back"—was the real-life inspiration for Jessica Rabbit.
- After 20 years of outsourcing, American textile manufacturing signals it may be coming back home.
- After my application is processed, I'll be able to carry a concealed weapon in no fewer than 32 states. It's great for road trips.
- As the popularity of EDM rises and falls, so do drug casualties.
- The time when, in 1961, the U.S. nearly detonated an atomic bomb over North Carolina.
- How a mystery-reading systems analyst shed light on baseball's once-murky beginnings.
- Louis C.K. connects smartphones to the hole inside us all.