Reader staffers share stories that fascinate, amuse, or inspire us.
Hey, did you read:
• About J.K. Rowling confessing that she’s also Robert Galbraith? —Steve Bogira
• This theory that the Pixar movies are really a continuous dystopian chronicle of the decline of human civilization and how the Earth can only be preserved by love? —Aimee Levitt
• That our venerable Chicago Sun-Times colleague Jenny McCarthy is the new cohost of The View, even as she maintains a hectic blogging schedule? (How does she do it?!) —Drew Hunt
• That according to new U.N. estimates, the population of Nigeria will exceed that of the U.S. by 2050? —Kate Schmidt
• The Times investigates: Who is Fnu Lnu? —Sam Worley
• About the bot that finds and retweets anagrams on Twitter? (For instance: “And the shower is still going” and “What! The Golden Girls is on?”) —Gwynedd Stuart
• That George Zimmerman is now reportedly thinking about going to law school? —Mick Dumke
• . . . while a Zimmerman juror is already shopping for a book deal? —Sam Worley
• This inquiry into who prepared Shakespeare’s scripts for publication in the First Folio? —Tony Adler
• That Taste of Chicago-lite drew an estimated 1.5 million people? —Deanna Isaacs