September 7, 2011: Afternoon
- The silent drought in Nairobi slums: Aid organizations' emergency indicators don't work in cities.
- Forty years on, researchers test willpower of the "marshmallow experiment" participants.
- How lawyer-turned-innovator Narcis Monturiol invented the submarine, then was promptly forgotten.
- Dutch realize they need a mountain, plan to build it themselves.
- Ryan Normandin profiles the MIT grad who runs a thinly disguised web brothel.
- Marx was right that capitalism is destructive, just wrong that communism is the solution.
- Google Correlate reveals the search phrases that correspond to Vonnegut's story shapes.
- Arizona to charge one-time $25 "background check fee" for would-be prison visitors.
- Former utopia Roosevelt Island has a giant automated vacuum collection system.
- Heroin's new business model: "more discretion and discipline, and better branding and quality control."
- Prediction: As web content declines, intellectuals flock to their Kindles and Economists.
- Wildlife Service to reconsider captive chimps, declaring them not just "threatened," but "endangered."
- In Sweden, drunk elk freed from tree.