September 4, 2013: Afternoon
By The Morning News
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- Nevada launches a website that lets you fantasy-shop for Obamacare—before you do it for real on Oct. 1.
- Giving some credence to the Facebook post allegedly from Assad's 11-year-old son: The Assad administration's kids liked it.
- A look at the data shows that yes, the BBC is biased, but not in the direction many might assume.
- Breaking news once was anything but—it took a month for the Declaration of Independence to reach Britain.
- Teju Cole parodies Max Fisher's Syria questions.
- Why it looks like the other line at the register is moving faster than yours: We believe there are associations where they aren't.
- For its many devotees, the disastrousness of the movie Clue has been greatly exaggerated.
- See also: Nicole Pasulka learns how to embalm a body.
- I was sitting at Ashe, still nursing a small headache but feeling OK, when a school of fish went shooting through my intestines.
- A quick profile of the Caribbean-born coach who taught Arthur Ashe and transformed New York tennis.
- Gladwell on drugs and sports.
- I'll quit masturbating and tobacco, I'll volunteer and never complain...please, just fucking please, let her be OK.
- Not just for criminals and lunatics anymore, left-handed brains may offer cognitive benefits over righties.
- A loose analysis shows ageist Millenials hate Springsteen—everyone else must pity their road trips.
- Some of the trendy words we added to the dictionary in the '90s stuck—others, like "cowabunga," didn't.
- Ministry of Sound sues Spotify over subscriber playlists that duplicate its popular compilations.
