Will athletes ever stop breaking world records?

LONDON OLYMPICS Will athletes ever stop breaking world records? Many records seem to be shattered every couple of years, but scientists say we may soon reach a point when setting a benchmark will be a rarity MICROSOFT Microsoft's Hotmail reboot: Will the new Outlook convert Gmail users? A long-forgotten webmail service gets a Windows 8-style facelift, and tech junkies hail its beauty, simplicity, and focus on privacy TWITTER REVOLUTION Twitter's censorship of Olympic critic Guy Adams: The fallout The social-messaging site and NBC try to silence a vocal opponent of the network's delayed Olympics coverage — and incite the internet's rage instead SCHOOL BULLYING Should bullying victims get free plastic surgery? A nonprofit organization gives a bullied teen free plastic surgery, but is going under the knife the right way to address the taunting? ARTS+LIFE Snoop Dogg's high-minded transformation into Snoop Lion From rap to reggae? The veteran artist implausibly ditches his dope-smoking gangsta persona to become a dope-smoking Bob Marley acolyte FUTURE OF THE DEMOCRATS Is Julian Castro the Latino Obama? The 37-year-old mayor of San Antonio is giving the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention — just as a young Barack Obama did in 2004 FROM OUR PARTNERS AT SLATE Why you shouldn't feel guilty about using your air conditioning The case against the case against air conditioning. SEE ALL CARTOONS NEWSER Now, even more evidence of the Higgs Boson AOL Study: Working late into pregnancy is as dangerous as smoking BUZZFEED 8 photos of Olympics swimmers spotted from below NEW YORK MAGAZINE OWS sues over pepper spray TECCA All Facebook users will soon be forced to switch to Timeline Weird news photo quiz Doting dolphins. Overachieving chefs. For each of these five curious images, see if you can choose the answer that correctly completes the photo caption         Is this email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser.  unsubscribe from this list | update subscription preferences | privacy policy  Copyright © 2012 The Week, All rights reserved.