Headlines from August 25, 2009
- Scots seek answers in the early release of the Lockerbie bomber, opening new questions about the original conviction.
- Presidential panel estimates H1N1 could infect half the U.S. population this fall and winter, kill double the number of the average flu.
- Dinkins to Paterson: One thing you could do is not brand your opponents as racists.
- Increased surveillance of government procedures might provide America with a renewed sense of checks and balances.
- Four million Chinese children are regarded as internet addicts under the guidelines. China stops at nothing to curb what it thinks is something.
- We're not acting on climate change because we're still cavemen at heart.
- Lou Solomon...will be transitioning into the newly created post of Independent Phone Acquaintance.
- The ambidextrous Don Mueller pushes his cause: two-racket tennis, where no player has a backhand.
- At Infinite Summer, author John Green discloses the reasons he's behind in his reading.
- Also at I.S.: The 2005 commencement speech...is something of a bridge between Infinite Jest and his final, unfinished novel.
- A selection of bookstores that double as record stores, but only for certain records.
- Pelecanos tops the stack of books Obama took on his summer vacation to Martha's Vineyard.
- Video: Winkers are pants that wink.
- Dispatch from Chiapas, which provides ample resources to Mexico but receives next to nothing in return.
- Zimbabweans find freedom of expression through Facebook.
- Seven myths about alternative energy.
- Instapaper for the commute: Hilton Als on Michael Jackson, James Baldwin, and gay black men.
- Comprehensive list of the political tilts of corporations and organizations, plus how much money they donate to campaigns.
- Evidence suggests Brown & Co. wanted the Lockerbie bomber returned to Libya, but didn't want their hands dirtied.
- Gallery of photos from deep sea-vent exploration.
- Clips show the difference between TV and film screens, and the violation of panning and scanning.
- Matthew Baldwin's exhaustive compilation of "mind fuck" movies.
- Complete list of lost English country houses; the social history of the mp3.
- Among internet art's best sagas: Jeff Goldblum's Downward Spiral.
- Warner Bros. pays for rapper's doctorate after she reminds them about a little clause in her contract.
- Glossy profile of the Bryan brothers--not much analysis, little depth, but still enjoyable.