September 25, 2012: Afternoon
- Sea levels are rising at an average of 3mm a year—though some areas are as fast as 12mm.
- Global warming is turning southern England into a premier winemaking region.
- Todd Levin explains how to select a wine.
- How a physician who swallowed a can tab inspired the redesign of our aluminium cans.
- Researchers confirm that intellectual variety keeps the brain nimble.
- With the U.S. high school class of 2012, SAT scores drop to their lowest levels.
- Greenskeepers reveal trade secrets.
- Q&A with the man who's reweighting polls to show Romney crushing Obama.
- Study of Korean genealogy records finds eunuchs lived up to 19 years longer than uncastrated men.
- Tim Burton doesn't love Downton Abbey.
- A pair of entrepreneurs look for ways to disrupt the mortician business.
- Related: The "semi-spiritual" music that sets the mood at today's funeral parlors.
- Thirteen years after losing a truck's worth of gear, Sonic Youth recovers two more of its guitars.
- Factory Records' most underrated acts.
- A father sends his son's toy train into space.