Headlines from May 26, 2010
- Obama sends 1200 troops to border-patrol; Cancun mayor arrested for trafficking.
- Doctor who spread autism-vaccine hokum discharged from General Medical Council for "dishonest," "misleading" research.
- Harvard professor spends 40% of his time chasing research grants.
- Central African lawyers prefer keeping anti-witch laws on the books for pragmatic, anti-lynching reasons.
- Towel Day and spacecraft tweets enlarge Douglas Adams's legacy.
- Why Twitter influence isn't a game of quantity; one of most influential users is a librarian with few followers.
- Study suggests intelligence can be improved by increasing your working memory.
- Some people find their calling in belt-sander racing--people who amount to little or nothing in the real world.
- Women's fashion used to understand how Americans are "slowly turning ourselves into Islamofascists."
- Burning mouth syndrome, smoking stool syndrome, and other curious disease names.
- Minute-by-disgusting-minute breakdown of how Cheetos are made.
- New smartphone app available to answer your philosophical crises.
- For this month's ORN, join TMN in rewriting the final espisode of LOST.
- The murderer is always the vaguely familiar character, and other lessons from Law and Order.
- Kingston under siege as Coke crisis continues; calm will come from legal acrobatics or Coke's consent.
- Tracking Jamaican unrest online.
- Mitchell is broadly optimistic about Middle East progress, urging "extreme risks" for peace.
- Syria's Assad: America has no influence, because it is doing nothing.
- Op: Obama shares oil-spill blame; pray he doesn't get a better chance to do better on energy legislation.
- "Fishery disaster" declared in Louisiana, Mississippi, and Alabama, unlocking federal funds.
- Midget subs are no laughing matter--South Korea to install new "snooping system."
- News opinions from UK's topless tabloid girls.
- Instapaper: How the National Enquirer went from scandal sheet to Pulitzer contender.
- Great-distance migration paths tracked.
- Op: Four ways to use the 2014 Sochi Games to resolve long-standing Caucasus conflicts.
- New York cops angry over "moronic" bill that would mandate shooting to wound.
- Photos of a brain being sliced and shaved.
- Study says Google Pac-Man costs $120 million in lost productivity (Google Pac-Man)
- I have two children. One is a boy born on a Tuesday. What is the probability I have two boys? Math geeks unite.
- Wonderful: Christoph Niemann's house is haunted by goblins.