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Headlines from October 13, 2009
- Guantánamo prison library rejects an Arabic-language copy of Noam Chomsky's anthology on post-Sept. 11 commentary.
- If you already have a blog, make sure you spray-feed your URL in niblets open-face to the skein.
- Others try pressing and pressing against the windshield without success. This year's New York car registration stickers don't stick.
- Americans are fleeing the suburbs for the sub-suburbs.
- TMN's Sarah Hepola on humiliation, confession, make-outs, and control-top undergarments.
- Chinese website allows women to live with their mates online before actually dating them.
- With the help of Steve Jobs, Disney is bringing the theme park experience to its standalone stores.
- Video: 40 years of Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
- Sea mucus poses a threat; icebergs reveal natural art.
- Charlie White's "Teen and Transgender Comparative Study" will be displayed at N.Y.U.
- A visual analysis of Brian Eno's album covers; an audio analysis of the Beatles' multitrack masters.
- God introduces new bird.
- Short stories about elements from the periodic table.
- Profile of Czech President Vaclav Klaus, the contrarian and dissident who bedevils Europe.
- Summers and Geithner: hardcore tennis dorks.
- Instapaper for the commute: Among the NSA's greatest headaches is a lack of electrical power.
- Plan to transform a Southern capital into a European gem.
- Professor charts his move from lowbrow to highbrow and back.
- Video: Carnivore goes to a vegetarian dinner party.
- Sendak to children scared by Wild Things: "Go home. Or wet your pants."
- Among the journalists who have left is this reporter. Journalists flee Iran, fearing persecution.
- New bridges in Maine bring fiber-reinforced plastics to road construction.
- NBC sued by the Font Bureau for using typefaces without permission.
- Animated timeline of the International Space Station being assembled.
- Neurology ethics committee takes a position on how doctors should respond to adult patients asking for brain-boosters.
- Carol Brady--Florence Henderson--starts a tech-support company for old people.
- Performance affects athletes' perception; players who are performing better perceive the ball to be bigger.
- Obama's Nobel Prize as seen from Norway.
- Writing a book about decision-making doesn't make you a master decider--it simply allows you to have more precise names for your mistakes. Jonah Lehrer confronts his biases.