Headlines from September 29, 2009
- Health care faces a new hurdle, as Congress tries to figure out how to prevent taxpayer dollars from paying for abortions.
- Polanski's attorneys helped provoke his arrest by complaining [that] prosecutors had made no real effort to capture the filmmaker.
- Video: How National Geographic photographers created a seamless image of a redwood tree from top to bottom.
- A grandmother is appalled that people choose to talk to their iPhones rather than their babies.
- Simplicity of language is not only reputable, but perhaps even sacred. "How to Write With Style," by Kurt Vonnegut.
- An unused William Safire speech, written in case Apollo 11 became stranded on the moon.
- William Safire's favorite New Yorker cartoon is a good one indeed.
- Disgraced politicians who've made comebacks, kind of.
- The close of summer brings an end to Jews for Jesus's heyday.
- Tell them they can call me He Who Doesn't Put Up With Shit Like This. How many names hath God?
- A new book about a "metrodox" Jew's year in church could have gone further by not traveling all that far.
- How celestial bodies are christened, and how a scientist named an asteroid after George Plimpton.
- Lucy Vodden, who inspired "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds," passes away.
- We've linked it before, but now with some good notes: Everything you need to know about the Great Lakes (in the D.R.C.).
- Similarities between Africa's needs in 1938 and 2005.
- Spain gets its first glance at the first family's daughters, and discovers they're goths.
- Op: The White House needs to go Nixon on Iran: cooperation and engagement, not reliance on the Russians.
- Notes on William Safire's hackery.
- New word: "Vendrification: When fancy food trucks displace traditional street vendors."
- Video: Jay Leno, corporate shill.
- 3D printing is quickly becoming cheaper--even Jay Leno does it; Giles Turnbull meets the godfather of 3D printing.
- Dvorak vs. Qwerty: the future of America's keyboards.
- Report on how scientists measure the invisible flow and structures of moving water.
- Instapaper for the commute: What it takes to be art, and what it takes to be a Warhol.
- Evidence "pretty conclusive" that spanking reduces your child's IQ.
- Investigation into the crises in American dentristy as explored by a Brit seeking a better smile.
- The world's 99 most popular emerging songs; map of the world's connectedness.
- 1935 picture of future wars fought with robot soldiers.