Headlines from April 16, 2010
- Various views of Europe's spreading ash plume blowing from Eyjafjallajökull volcano in southern Iceland.
- Live aircraft traffic above Europe.
- Holocaust commemoration increasingly occuring on Facebook despite social media being built to promote what is recent.
- Obama orders hospital visitation rights for gays and lesbians.
- Uninformed American summarizes watching the British Prime Ministerial debate.
- Brown must constantly battle the risk of appearing to be a walking Wikipedia.
- J.K. Rowling's single-mother manifesto on why she still refuses to vote Tory.
- Scientists say calorie restriction influences the same handful of molecular pathways related to aging in all animals studied so far.
- Roundup of passive-aggressive library signs.
- Op: Sexually, millennials are a corrective generation: deeply conventional and traditional, and anti-boomer.
- The Ballad of Cocky the Fox, a serial tale in 20 fits.
- Lamentation for Polyrock, whose sound has yet to be stolen.
- Notes on seven never-produced screenplays penned by famous intellectuals, including Nabokov, Churchill, and Huxley.
- Nude performance artists at MoMA frequently touched by museumgoers.
- Pictures of what (extremely similar) Atlantans carry around in their bags.
- Fascinating job description (response to first question) in a Q&A with a physicist turning the South Pole into a dark-matter camera.
- Collaboration fans: Layer Tennis goes global today.
- Today's wacky Japanese fad to be marveled at by Americans: "history girls" (not quite "tentacle erotica").
- Recipe for the vegan version of K.F.C.'s Double Down.