1. We Are Living Large

The latest numbers from the Centers for Disease Control are out and Americans are living large. Too large -- especially in some southern states. In Mississippi, nearly thirty-five percent of adults are obese. Colorado is at the other end of the spectrum. Denver is America's thinnest city, and across the state, only twenty percent of adults are obese.

+ What can Google Suggest teach us about our views on different states? Just type in "Why is [state] so" and find out.

+ If the Romney/Ryan ticket doesn't win in November, maybe we should appoint Paul Ryan as the National Trainer in Chief. However you feel about his politics, there's no denying the guy is ripped. He follows the popular P90x program and even trains several other members of Congress.

2. The Uncovered

There are several reasons one could point to in an effort to explain why the shootings at a Sikh temple in Oak Creek received less coverage than the massacre that took place in Aurora two weeks earlier. In Aurora, the shooter lived, the killings took place at a movie theater, and it was a relatively slow news period (compared to the Olympics). But the difference in the amount of coverage (from the media and politicians) was monumental. Only one network even sent an anchor to report live from Oak Creek. Here's Naunihal Singh in The New Yorker: "There is the tragedy inherent in the brutal murders ... But there is also the larger one of our inability to understand this attack as an assault upon the American dream and therefore a threat to us all."

3. Snorting Carly Rae Jepsen

Music is like a powerful drug. When we hear a song that we like, our brain releases some dopamine. And we're hooked. And just like we might want more drugs like cocaine, we crave more music. It's just sad that some people's dopamine has such bad taste. Here's a very short video that explains the scientific power of music.

4. Additions to the Edition

Merriam-Webster has added some new words to the dictionary. This year's additions include, aha moment, brain cramp, cloud computing, bucket list, and F-bomb ("used metaphorically as a euphemism").

+ In addition to adding the words, the folks from Merriam-Webster often provide some backstory about their derivation. Gary Carter was one of baseball's greatest catchers. He's now also the man credited with dropping the first F-Bomb.

5. Seriously ... Put Your Tray Table Up

Boeing is testing an aircraft called the X-51A Waverider. It travels five times faster than the speed of sound. While its initial uses will be military, its technology could one day be used to get you from LA to NY in about 46 minutes. Of course, if you were that early, your gate wouldn't be ready and you'd have to wait on the tarmac for four hours.

+ United Airlines lost my friend's 10 year old daughter and didn't care. (I'm increasingly convinced that the Internet was created to give people a place to complain about United.)

6. The Ghost of Kozmo Past

Some of the biggest busts of the first Internet boom were companies like Kozmo and Webvan that were focused on delivering items to your doorstep in a timely manner. I still miss the miracle of seeing a Kozmo bike-messenger show up at my door with movies and snacks. Times have changed. But big companies like eBay and Amazon are joining a host of small start-ups that are trying to rekindle the dream of doorstep delivery.

+ The Single Most Important Object in the Global Economy. Slate pays homage to the pallet.

7. Does Anybody Remember Boredom?

"It's all anybody asks me. I tell them I'm not using the internet for a year, and they just need to know: How's it going?" Paul Miller's employers at The Verge are paying him his normal salary to report about his experience being offline for a full year (though I assume someone there is reading him his daily NextDraft). Here's Miller's key takeaway after three months offline: "The luxury that no internet has afforded me is that I feel like I have more time to fill, and fewer ways to fill it. It's the boredom and lack of stimulation that drives me to do things I really care about, like writing and spending time with others."

+ Tired of staring at screens all day? The cloud-connected Little Printer might be just what you've been waiting for.

8. If You Spit in the Air, It Lands in Your Face

Hungarian Csanad Szegedi was one of Europe's throwbacks to the age of wanton antisemitism. His party complained about the "Jewishness" of other politicians and referred to Israelis as "lice-infested, dirty murderers." But then Szegedi learned a little detail about his own past. He is the Jewish grandchild of Holocaust survivors. Mazel Tov, you idiot.

9. Oh, Oh, Oh...

Ron Palillo has died in Palm Beach at the age of 63. You probably know him better as Horshack.

10. The Bottom of the News

After winning a massive lottery prize worth well over $230 million, Adrian and Gillian Bayford are now worth about as much as fellow Brits; Tom Jones, Eric Clapton, and Jamie Oliver. Gillian says the couple will give a lot of the money away and they still plan to be frugal: "I'm Scottish, we're known for being tight, I'll still be hitting the sales."

+ The Olympic lesson learned by the chairman of NBC Sports: We should have delayed more of the Olympics.

+ Which professions drink the most coffee?

+ From The Wrap: 13 Fall Films We're Dying to See.

+ Justin Gilpatrick hadn't had a drink in years. But then he broke his streak. In a big way. Luckily, he somehow survived being compacted in a garbage truck (twice).