Headlines from August 26, 2008
- Furious at its delayed removal from "terror list," North Korea suspends dismantling of nuclear program.
- Blogging from inside the "Hillary suite," i.e., "ground zero for the still-not-totally-over-it."
- The media loves to talk about a possible rift in the convention, but how many militant Hill-ites are there?
- "I don't care about his beer, I care about his intelligence." Rednecks for Obama.
- Considering the riddle of Caucasian ethnicities when there are 40 indigenous tongues spoken in the region.
- Did Rice's intimate knowledge of Russian society and politics fail her during the Georgian conflict?
- Rice criticizes Israel after report says Jewish settlement construction has doubled.
- The full story on Shai Agassi's plan to put Israelis into electric cars.
- "When you meet a Muslim who says he's an independent, it means he used to be a Republican." It's a strange time to be an American Muslim.
- Full explanation of Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni's various marriages and affairs.
- Print for the commute: Reconstructing the Pentagon's decision-making process to shoot down a satellite.
- The attractions of (neuro)anatomy in one of London's biggest strip clubs.
- How neuroscience explains spirituality and out-of-body experiences.
- Large collection of graphed networks.
- Such a conceptual work can exist simultaneously in two separate realms. Artist Cai Guo-Qiang responds to Olympics fireworks controversy.
- The book to read before going to business school.
- "Thanks for giving us Stalin." On the Georgian-turned-Russian dictator, and how Putin is resuming his work.
- Dipping world economy forces Russians to kick their milk habit, Brazilians to stay at home.
- Bay Area zoning laws and the technical illegality of lemonade stands pits city hall against city youngsters.
- Photos: The 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago, when desperation switched to violence.
- Mercifully they realize I've no time to give autographs, and so they ask only the cast members. Woody Allen's diary from the set of Vicky Cristina Barcelona.
- Op: Catcher in the Rye is no longer the book it was--why are we still teaching it?
- In the Alps, a melting glacier reveals neolithic, Bronze Age, Roman, Middle Age artifacts.
- A nice collection of 1970s packaging.
- Yep, I actually clipped and kept the Star Wars comic strip from the newspapers. I had thought I'd lost them until I...found this old yellowed envelope.
- An art-loving family ponders whose paintings--Rothko, Warhol, Hockney?--to represent in tiles on their bathroom wall.
- For followers of the Feltron Annual Reports, introducing Daytum, where you can chart the minutiae of your life.
- Lynch delved deep into his box of oddities for this baffling minute of mind-wrongs. Cool commercials by movie directors.
- Video: Hands on a Hard Body, the must-see documentary about a group of people who compete to win a mini-truck.