Monday evening roundup

Treating women like $hit on a national level costs a country money in a lot of ways. India gets hit in one of those ways.

How do you measure freedom? My standards differ from those of Mercatus.

Oh, my! Yesterday's Google doodle confused a lot of (confused) people.

Some neat military photography.

Physicists, of all people, argue about the Shroud of Turin.

Is there a breakthrough in the works to lessen the tradeoff between phone sleekness and battery life?

Bats use oral sex for evolutionary advantage.

The Times launches a date-appropriate haiku site.

Oh, my (again)! It is never rude to not pick up the phone. It is always rude to turn your back on your guests. And it is absurd, outside the context of a costume party, to dictate the color scheme of your guests' outfits.