September 4, 2012: Morning
- More than 100,000 Syrians fled their country in August, highest amount since conflict began in March 2011.
- Chinese demand for ivory causes epic elephant slaughter in Africa.
- "Afghanistan" mentioned four times during Republican convention.
- Now that Obama's beer recipe is set to be released, notes on how to make George Washington's "small beer."
- See also: ultimate travel kit for coffee worriers.
- A last conversation with Phyllis Diller.
- All but one of the six American flags on the Moon are still standing up; all of them are white.
- Venetian pigeons dyed with bright colors.
- Remarkable photographs from this year's Burning Man Festival.
- Luscious pictures of New York's Lower East Side in 1980 and 2010.
- See also: East Village street fashion from the 1980s.
- How to draw lower Manhattan.
- Sasha Hemon tracks the Wachowskis through the filming of Cloud Atlas.
- Debate over whether tennis should continue having women play three sets, men play five.
- Growing numbers of Muslims enroll at Catholic colleges.