September 27, 2013: Afternoon
- George Will on Republicans' lame attempt to defund Obamacare: "Those people who are best at deceiving others first deceive themselves."
- Related: Man who understands 8% of Obamacare vigorously defends it from man who understands 5%.
- An estimated 12 workers will die every week during Qatar's construction push for the 2022 World Cup.
- Cross-cultural profile of the effectiveness of yoga and meditation in prisons.
- Officials believe the majority of Syria's nerve agents remain unweaponized and could be destroyed before being hidden or stolen.
- Allegations of a "sex jihad"—Tunisian women traveling to Syria and returning pregnant—may be a rumor perpetrated by pro-Assad forces.
- Worldwide, 200 million fewer women have access to the internet than men...and this growing divide is only getting worse.
- Atlanta family salvages cancelled wedding reception by inviting 200 homeless people to dinner.
- Scientists at MIT discover the Tet1 gene, which could provide a key to the process of erasing memories.
- A current 90-year-old's birth is closer to Lincoln's assassination than it is to the current day.
- The geographical, political, and financial history of the Civil War in one chart.
- Things children should not do, according to an 1819 book of cautionary tales.
- Brief histories of the hashtag, pilcrow, ampersand, and manicule.
- Once a hotbed of artistic achievement, the American theater has been replaced by top-drawer shows like Homeland and Breaking Bad.
- How atheists grieve.
- Get rich quick: Become a stamp peddler in time for the three-cent hike.