September 28, 2012: Afternoon
- Researchers find supporters of rival presidential candidates are able to empathize with each other.
- I like to listen to right-wing podcasts and then call up the organizations that produce them to tell them about everything they got wrong.
- Mike Love's recent firing of his fellow Beach Boys is another in a long line of his exploits.
- Education is India's biggest hurdle to competitiveness.
- A painting purchased for $7 at a West Virginia flea market is believed to be a Renoir stolen from a museum in 1951.
- Scientists develop electronics that can be absorbed into the body for medical uses.
- Rather than recruiting young males, the military needs those who are skilled and knowledgable.
- Miranda Popkey covers the NFL ref situation: "Americans, as we so often do in times of crisis, took to the internet."
- In our latest Weekender, a selection of stories about football.
- A look at 111 years of Sherlocks: Robert Downey Jr.'s Holmes is more conventional than the androids and canines who've portrayed the great detective.
- A history of the Beatles in comics.
- Jamaica has earned its reputation for being the loudest island on the planet.
- Watch 32 metronomes synchronize themselves.