September 27, 2011: Morning
- New Zambian president, calling Chinese investors "infesters," wants migrant workers expelled.
- Data since 2008 shows steady downward trend in New Yorkers consuming cocaine.
- When Kerouac met Kesey, as told by their agent.
- Politicians should fear cartoons before editorials—they're much more vicious.
- Scientists say four or more (!) cups of coffee a day lowers depression among women by 20%
- Female comedy writers at late-night shows talk shop.
- Office writers discuss why Andy got the big job.
- Programmer's virtual monkeys have randomly reproduced almost all of Shakespeare's work.
- Sly Stone currently lives in a camper and wishes people would pay him to play his own music.
- Nine-thousand Scottish homes to be powered by whisky.
- Physics of how a bicycle traveling at the right speed will steer itself.
- End of motoring declared once again in Britain, but this time trends—electric public vehicles; travel peaks—suggest it's true.
- Captain Robert Falcon Scott of the Antarctic: victim of cruel luck and deception.
- At the top of Dubai's reading list: Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed.
- Stories behind band T-shirts that still mean something to their owners, and why.