Headlines from June 3, 2008
- Will she concede? Won't she concede? Obama clinches! Hillary might consider veeping!
- McEwan: Fascination with the day of judgment just might bring it about.
- The Copenhagen Consensus delineates how to solve the world's 10 biggest problems.
- On dark matter: "Nobody claims to understand why it is happening, or its implications for the future of the universe."
- On seat cards: Mugabe and Ahmadinejad not invited to leaders' dinner at U.N. summit.
- On reporting from China, where people just don't know how to transmit information.
- Print for the commute: George Packer on the Iraq of the mind and the Iraq on the ground--in both cases, everyone's loss.
- Suggestions for your end-of-campaign playlist.
- There were the cover versions of rock hits retrofit with the Bo Diddley beat. Remembering Bo Diddley in song.
- Wired wiki on how to promote your band using MySpace.
- Audio: Graduation season causes nightmares, explained scientifically.
- A TMN classic, we dare say: Laptops designed by seven-year-olds (see also: the world's best subways).
- The genius of Howard Deering Johnson, and 24 other people who changed food in America.
- Couple spends 24 hours imitating Buddhists who are never more than 15 feet apart.
- Meet the hot, young, fit and completely criminal Bonnie and Clyde of identity theft.
- Video examples of favorite media hoaxes; videos of the violence emo fans face in Mexico.
- Instructions from a winner on how to triumph in the New Yorker caption contest.
- You, too, can wear painful shoes, and other books you will not be reading this summer.
- After today's primaries, Obama could snag the nomination; Clinton may pull out, or she might suspend her campaign.
- Obama campaign targets key Clinton advisors and supporters, hoping they can all play nice together.
- The task here at the Office of the Postulator of the Cause for Beatification and Canonization is to judge souls. John Paul II's path to sainthood.
- Five scientific ways to detect a doctored photo.
- Shuttle docks at space station, delivers new lab, toilet pump, Buzz Lightyear figure.
- "We can talk all we want about being brand-proof...but our behavior tells a different story." On brands and the cultures that unwittingly adore them.
- Times reviews its op-ed about Obama's "conversion" from Islam, finds author's interpretation of Islamic law incorrect.
- On the Batta, a car that has become notorious for transporting Shiite militiamen in Iraq.
- "But it didn't put no bucks in my kitty." Bo Diddley dies, age 79; generations of rock stars pay tribute.
- Manhattan man acquitted of assault on "Gym Grunter," hailed by spinning classmates as a hero.
- "We're going to take you right up next to the devastated part of our lot and give you a close-up." Universal Studios fire can't stop the tour.