Weekend talk thread February 17 – 19

Weekend thread time.

• How Your Cat Is Making You Crazy
• Dinner at Rupert’s
  What happened on the fateful night last May when Rupert Murdoch decided how News Corp. would manage its phone-hacking scandal?

• The Mysteries of the Suicide Tourist Why the same things that attract millions of happy visitors to New York—the glamour, the skyline, the anonymity—also draw people from around the world to kill themselves there.
• Open your mouth and you’re dead The freediving world championships occur at the outer limits of competitive risk.