September 3, 2013: Morning
- Ten months after "civil unrest" began, Britain OK'd sales of nerve gas chemicals to Syria.
- Syria's first lady spends while her country burns.
- This very lexicon...that found its way into Heaney’s most public poetry is the same one we are speaking regarding the murderous mess in Damascus.
- Henri Cole recalls eating seafood with Seamus Heaney.
- What happens when an anonymous poster submits a murder confession to PostSecret.
- Comic Sans creator: Love it or hate it, even the Vatican has used the font.
- Inside the competitive world of Bhutan's national sport: archery.
- Japan's latest food-decorating craze: toast art.
- What makes your food taste good—or not—isn't proteins, carbohydrates, or fats, it's microbes.
- People all across the U.S. frequently lose electricity for a surprising reason: squirrels.
- The "uncanny valley" effect of humanoid robots might be more like a cliff—or not real at all.
- Following predictions for an above-normal Atlantic hurricane season, we're halfway through and not a single one has appeared.
- After 10 years, man realizes a painting he bought at auction for £30 is a Constable original worth £250,000.
- Why music has a long history in the workplace, and the "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" became the song to unite the human race.
- Writer Frederik Pohl died this weekend.