September 30, 2011: Afternoon
- New numbers find New Orleans lost 29% of its population in the last 10 years.
- Of small companies formed between 2004 and 2008, only 3% added more than 10 employees.
- Neutrinos getting lots of attention for potentially refuting Einstein.
- Performance psychologists enter the classical-music world to help musicians cope with stress.
- Who won the war in Iraq? Iran—a concise, convincing explanation.
- Koreans encouraged to be paparazzi-like spies: recording civic wrongdoing for money from the state.
- Boiling contest finds Berkeley researchers' cooker losing speed battle to traditional Haitian stove.
- Chemistry professor unwittingly behind synthetic marijuana warns against psychosis, prefers martinis himself.
- How to frog bare-handed in Louisiana.
- How to write a love poem.
- Friday poem: Stephen Dunn's marvelous "If a Clown."
- Male librarians pose nude in calendar to change perception of being old, white, and twee.
- Cindy Sherman discusses making a fashion video for French Vogue.
- PJ O'Rourke admires Gaudí, "God's engineer."
- Deserving ode to Bogdanovich's masterpiece, The Last Picture Show, now showing in New York.
- Websites recommended for keeping track of the art and design worlds.
- Lucid explanation of why TV beats film, and "How The Sopranos killed The Godfather."