September 4, 2012: Afternoon
- A guide to college football 2012.
- TMN's Nicole Pasulka on surfing legend Eddie Aikau and reminders of Hawaii's complicated past.
- Scientists discover that people can train themselves to forget memories.
- Romney's muffin-eating habits will not endear him to Asian voters.
- Focus group reveals disaffected voters like Obama on a personal level and don't respond well to negative ads.
- The “black president” lived in the African American imagination as a kind of cosmic joke, a phantom of all that could never be.
- Thin Lizzy singer's mother says her son would have objected to the RNC's use of "The Boys Are Back in Town."
- Jarvis Cocker narrates a documentary on Ziggy Stardust.
- South LA residents dismayed to learn that getting a space shuttle means losing 400 trees to drive it there.
- Americans fear West Nile portends other imported infections.
- No, historically, "going Dutch" and "hold the fort" aren't offensive terms.
- On the origin of the "a" in "fuckin' a."
- A history of contagious laughter.
- Sorry I haven't posted.
- A look at which nations are arming the developing world.