September 9, 2011: Afternoon
- Libertarian lawyers and DC hipsters join forces to fight for the rights of food trucks.
- Bay Area restaurant reviews in the style of Cormac McCarthy.
- You say "macaron," I say "macaroon."
- America's surprise export to Japan: high-quality hay.
- Researchers conclude fiction builds empathy.
- Luminarium author Alex Shakar on his protagonists, the 10-year project, and writers as mystics.
- Conan's response to TBS's request for no authors.
- Burning Man's money-banned tribe organization makes it an impromptu psych lesson in altruism.
- How the first famed animal trainer tamed lions.
- Julie Sedivy tries to figure out what Saskatchewan's motto, "hard to spell, easy to draw," really means.
- With batmanning replacing planking, we lose all faith in our nation's youth.
- The miracle defense against plagiarism, TurnItIn, probably not worth the bytes it's built on.