Headlines from May 25, 2010
- American universities return the blood they took 40 years ago from a Brazilian tribe.
- Anti-aging supplements are most effective when taken in middle age.
- Researchers find supplementing testosterone in women creates less trust, more vigilance.
- How a caste system and male-dominated society perpetuate honor killings in India.
- Teacher with "perfect record" allows students to dress in Klan clothing for a video project.
- Church of England issues prayers for the World Cup, including one "for those simply not interested."
- Agatha Christie would have been de-damed if she had pulled this shit. TMN's Matthew Baldwin's LOST faith.
- For this month's "Of Recent Note," rewrite the LOST finale.
- From 1927, Paramount Studio's map of geographical facsimiles around Southern California.
- American Kennel Association finally allows mixed-breed dogs to compete--though only in contests of skill, not beauty.
- At the Guardian Hay festival, Stephen Fry will judge the most beautiful tweet.
- The Goodreads literary pub crawl in New York includes stops for readings, beverages.
- B.P. and other oil companies to retain control of the worsening oil mess.
- U.S. enlarges joint exercises with South Korea in order to rattle northern neighbors.
- No neighboring power really wants the North Korean population released from its awful misery.
- Adichie: Most Nigerians are libertarians, not ideologically but by circumstance.
- After specious media blasts, Britain becomes home base for climate-change skeptics.
- Princess upsets Swedish church by desiring to wed "Anglo Saxon" style: wanting her father to give her away.
- Explanation of a watershed moment currently occurring in brain-scan evidence.
- Forensic economists find countries targeted for C.I.A. political interventions started importing more U.S. products.
- No one ever said Tibet before 1950 was a paradise. Brief chat between the Dalai Lama and Chinese citizens.
- Twain asked that his memoirs be held for 100 years--now here come 400 pages of bile.
- Like muffins and coffees, things need to be bigger now. Canadians accept hockey is no longer theirs alone.
- Upcoming novel by TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin picked for Time's Summer Preview (more info here).
- Mega-band plays tribute to slain New Orleans band director (see videos).
- Video: "Cracklin' Rosie" played on multiple phones.
- Six hundred light years away, a star is eating a planet.
- Every known astronaut wake-up call song. (pdf)