September 26, 2012: Morning
- Obama uses UN address to defend free speech in young democracies.
- Eighteen months into the astonishing revolt in Syria, children are being tortured.
- Collection of vivid dispatches from British correspondents in Syria.
- Half a billion dollars changed hands over Monday night's controversial Seahawks-Packers game.
- Thirty-two pictures of 32 NFL coaches yelling at replacement officials.
- In case you haven't been following the NFL officials story: Five of the worst calls this season.
- In case you speak German: Posters, graffiti, and missed connections in Berlin.
- In case you don't speak German: English explanation of the above.
- Stanford professors resist call to lecture to a camera.
- Brooks: The Republican Party "appeals to people as potential business owners, but not as parents, neighbors, and citizens."
- Leaders in business, politics, and the military report lower anxiety levels because they're in control.
- Evolutionary argument for why so much of life tastes like chicken.
- Eating fried chicken or a well-dressed salad means technically you're "a little bit stoned."
- Collector of opium antiques explains how collecting—e.g., he built his own opium den—led him to drug addiction.
- Photographs of a man's old-fashioned movie palace built in his basement.
- How pop stars are made in China.
- Late Nobel laureate Richard Feynman explains how trees originate in the sky.
- Beautiful pictures of Joshua Tree National Park employing an easel and a mirror.
- Mankind estimated to have taken 3.5 trillion pictures thus far.