Headlines from March 10, 2010
- Greek unions to stage second strike and shut down all public services tomorrow.
- American "La Barbie" fighting for control of Mexico's Beltran Leyva cartel.
- Instapaper for the commute: The great Charles Bowden flees the biggest cartel of all--the Mexican Army.
- See also: Wells Tower and his father find disaster in Iceland and Greeland.
- Selections from the fantastic photo-book series, "In Almost Every Picture."
- The full story of how Facebook was founded, with important asides about ear sex.
- I defy anyone to get a good fundoscopic exam on a seizing patient. Medically focussed reviews of House episodes.
- How to transform a hoodie into a computer sleeve, backpack, or baby bag.
- Large Hadron Collider to shut down for a year to address design issues.
- A look back at N.A.S.A.'s first wind tunnel.
- "Vintage" advertisements from Wired magazine, Geocities et al.
- Video: "Skinput" turns an epidermis into a keyboard.
- Friedman: Democracy was never going to have a virgin birth in Iraq, which has never known such a thing.
- Some--but not too much--business takes place in locker-room showers, politicians say.
- Federalist Society bigwigs protest Liz Cheney's attacks on federal lawyers.
- Summaries of Uganda, Pakistan, and other emerging gay-rights battlegrounds.
- Chart: U.S. gay partnership laws.
- Former batboy for Sinatra remembers great beaches, the Peppermint Lounge, Ted Berrigan, cash, and Venice.
- Musings on naming Hitchens's gay lovers who became Thatcher ministers.
- Expensive hobbies and their silly names.
- Bloomberg applies data visualization to baseball, sells advanced analysis to teams.
- Celebrities' Twitter messages illustrated.
- Video: "Lazy Sunday" performed live.
- Abstract expressionists get their turn on postage stamps.
- Study finds generosity and selfishness both contagious.
- Carbon-dioxide emissions pegged to the consumers eventually responsible for them.
- Cannabis use linked to hyper-priming, a small increased risk for developing schizophrenia (and perhaps breakfast tacos?).
- TMN's Sarah Hepola's extensive breakfast-taco tour of Austin.
- Chart: A complete guide to the Census.