Headlines from November 14, 2008
- Notes on how Obama can maintain a productive relationship with the military.
- If you didn't hear, Putin wants to hang Georgia's Saakashvili "by the balls."
- Lawrence Weschler on being the medium between Robert Irwin and David Hockney.
- "When Alzheimer's Hits at 40," a look at early-onset sufferers.
- It's difficult to describe this link except to say: No one blogs like Errol Morris blogs.
- For Saturday-morning reading: The philosopher who got himself a wolf.
- "Who Stole My Volcano? Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Dematerialisation of Supervillain Architecture."
- Gallery of the finest doomsday devices.
- How and why the Pentagon is getting into the flying-car business.
- Photos from a train trip to Beijing via Moscow.
- TMN Talks: with Radio Lab's Jad Abumrad today at four p.m.
- In this week's This American Life, a great segment on Studs Terkel's recorded interviews during the depression.
- Advisers are split over what to do with Obama's network of supporters, who are now a proven grassroots army.
- How to tell when your consumer confidence is shaken: when that fancy bean grinder doesn't seem worth it.
- The math on the Starbucks Gold Card: How many cups until you break even?
- Send in your question for this afternoon's TMN Talks with Jad Abrumrad, co-host of Radio Lab.
- With black stereotypes inapplicable, white comics just don't get how to poke fun at Obama.
- Sustainable food and agriculture experts on what they'd say if they had five minutes with the president-elect.
- Researchers turn tequila into diamonds.
- The public may have misgivings about a silent and invisible weapon that would boil the body's fluids before tearing it apart in a burst of vapor.
- Upcoming book features musicians' most-loved instruments, the stories behind them. (pdf here)
- Not much has changed in the [fantasy] genre since the invention of Bilbo Baggins.
- The house from A Christmas Story is open to tours--this month it's host to the movie's 25th anniversary celebration.
- The Nirvana baby, now 17, recreates the Nevermind cover photo.