Headlines from March 2, 2010
- We're back to studying events around the Black Sea to understand current events.
- The Winter Olympics are becoming more diverse, just keeping pace with the Summer Olympics.
- Nothing in Pakistan happens except at the instigation of one of the three A's: Allah, the army, or America.
- Yesterday's Koons article in the Times was a PR coup for the New Museum; Koons, meanwhile, still sounds bizarre-o.
- Instapaper for the commute: Krugman, Krugman, Krugman.
- The terrifying "last four minutes of Air France Flight 447."
- The terrifying, devastating attack of the Ug99 fungus.
- For sale: The Open Laboratory ("showcasing the quality and diversity of science writing on blogs in 2009").
- Redesigning the hot dog.
- Brigham Young's rules and filing procedures for growing a beard.
- District attorneys and children's advocacy groups said to agree about sexting: "hard-charging laws can do real damage."
- The state itself is the greatest villain. Accounting for Stieg Larsson.
- Fantastic: Authors of Logicomix, a candidate for this year's Rooster, pay tribute to Claude Lévi-Strauss.
- Microscopic origami; typographic artifacts of New York City.
- Video: A miniature day in New York.
- As man-made pollutants have decreased in U.S. waterways, manure is on the rise--and with it, greenhouse gas.
- Chart: Which cities might flood due to rising sea levels--and when.
- A charity's unsuccessful attempts to give away free umbrellas during a rainstorm.
- Study finds weedkiller common in U.S. waters can turn male frogs into females.
- "Active male homosexuals in the military could be expected to bring an increased incidence of sexually transmitted diseases."
- "Take no notice of sulking husbands or children" was her decorating motto. The real Laura Ashley.
- More children get more calories from snacks than in 1977; the culprits: parents, Facebook, and avoiding homework.
- Parisians sweat, then ridicule the macarons at McDonalds, Starbucks.
- The Taliban changes its image--now with fewer explosions, more podcasts.
- Op: At best, the G.O.P.'s plan to create "high-risk pools" for the "uninsurable" is a stopgap; at worst, it's a death sentence.
- A Q&A with Joel Johnson about a childhood of sexual abuse.
- I consider Joyce has meant his idioms to be foreign to an average English reader. An interview with the man who translated Ulysses into Finnish.
- Citing budget woes, A&E postpones reality show about subway workers.