Headlines from July 25, 2008
- Ed. note: As you can see, we're trying something new for Friday afternoons.
- The amount of politically correct professors in each discipline.
- How making decisions exhausts your brain.
- Kyoto protocol's emphasis on pollution control doesn't address the investment required to make clean energy viable
- Reporter David Carr remembers his many dark years by interviewing family and friends.
- Les Paul's time has been pretty much any decade since the 1920s.
- Pitchfork's "Overlooked Records 2008."
- Video: Tarantino's Mind.
- How the uncanny similarity of joy and despair's expressions appealed to Darwin.
- Criminologists investigate the causes of drastic crime increases in mid-sized cities like Memphis, sparking controversy with what they find.
- North by Northwest isn't a film about what happens to Cary Grant, it's about what happens to his suit.
- Loads of unecessary knowledge, and loads of wonderful links.
- How to cook the world's greatest snack food: Cincinnati chili.
- American embassy dusts off, expands program to help U.S.-employed Iraqis obtain visas, citizenship.
- Obama in Berlin: The police estimated that over 200,000 people...thronged the boulevard that stretches between the Prussian Victory Column and the Brandenburg Gate.
- Brooks: Obama has one speech; he delivered it to cheers in Europe, but back home the message is getting tired.
- Another possibility is that books per se are not especially interesting. An exploration of possible reasons for "reader's block."
- Young Jeezy exhausts every rhyme possibility except "Cliff Clavin."
- I must insist, from now on, that I am sent a proof of every review I do, in pdf format, so I can check it for fuck-ups.
- Deciding the New Orleans food scene has rebounded, The Times-Picayune resurrects its critiques.
- Tougher than getting a same-sex marriage: getting a same-sex divorce.
- McCain may announce a running mate before the Olympics, when people are still looking for something to pay attention to.
- Citing corruption, Iraq disbanded its Olympic committee last month; it now appears unlikely Iraqi athletes will be allowed to compete.
- Scientists reveal origins of aurora borealis: magnetic explosions between the Earth and moon.
- Video: The Muppets have arrived on the internet--finally.