Headlines from November 2, 2009
- More than 90 years later, the descendants of the Leo Frank lynching struggle with unanswered questions.
- For the first time in 27 years, an American has won the New York Marathon.
- From the 2004 race, "Faces of the Marathon," by Rion Nakaya.
- "I was the first person to run on Hampstead Heath, in the 1960s." The scientist who invented exercise.
- People in local newspapers are angry right now--here's proof.
- An explication of Iranian missile names.
- On Sunday, Brighton Beach Memoirs, one of Neil Simon's most-produced plays of the past 25 years, became one of Broadway's biggest flops.
- From the '60s to the present day, an appreciation of blacklight posters.
- People can sometimes swing the cost without refinancing their houses. As more companies enter the market, solar gets cheaper.
- India purports itself as the origin of scientific inquiry, rhinoplasty.
- Taiwanese baseball may be rife with corruption, but fans don't care.
- Because you know they're in there somewhere: Criterion's little fuck-ups.
- How E.M. Forster foresaw the internet in "The Machine Stops" a century ago.
- A literary experiment to create new nouns.
- Karzai gets new term after second round of voting is scrapped, and dubious congratulations flitter down.
- News events to anticipate for the week ahead.
- Taliban assessment: can't be flipped against al Qaeda, and fully aware the U.S. will soon depart.
- Profile of Perimeter, the not-exactly-autonomous Soviet doomsday device.
- This museum is my school, my magazine, my film, my politics. Pamuk creates a museum for his new novel.
- Training journal followed Kenyan runners in New York prior to the marathon.
- Genetic variation tied to bad driving.
- Zoomable chart of cell size and scale.
- Op: If the G.O.P. remains the party of prohibition (on gay marriage and weed), it will increasingly lose "freedom" as part of its DNA.
- Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham is the third-highest-earning comedian in America; in 2009, he's grossed $38 million in ticket sales.
- Time-lapse photography of one man's Halloween vigil, including data on kids' costumes.
- Brief encounter with Stephen King's gore consultant.
- There is very little one can say to capture its horror or its brilliance. What it's like to be psychotic.
- Study of amputees shows that the brain can move phantom limbs in impossible ways.
- Instapaper for the commute: History of murder in America.
- Agassi on hating tennis and his father, and beating Jim Brown.
- Due to hair loss, Agassi's mullet in the 1990 French Open was a wig.