Headlines from July 14, 2010
- A trillion is a lot, especially when you consider the billions of dollars we're throwing at Afghanistan.
- The arresting quality of hearing angry women speak, and what Obama could learn.
- The good news is that someone still wants to spy on us. The bad news is that it's the Russians.
- Researchers find exercise doesn't reverse the effects of prolonged sitting.
- To come of age as a Yankees fan in the mid-1980s was to feel as if Mattingly was all we had. A bat boy remembers his boss.
- Polaroids from the 1976 premiere of A Star Is Born and the disco after-party.
- Analysis of cave art, and how it furthers understanding of our ancestors' brains.
- Review of the medieval church's definitions of impotence and qualifications for annulment.
- Also: Interview with a sex therapist.
- Profile of participants in a new U.K. fad: child beauty pageants.
- How language cues help people see nearly imperceptible images.
- The consequences of the sun going out is surprisingly benign--we might not even know for 10,000 years.
- "No signal! Shit! It's gonna get us!" Familiar horror movie scenes ruined by the new iPhone.
- Violence and riots continue for a third night in Belfast after controversial parades.
- Soldiers in Fort Bliss, Texas, are statistically at greater risk at home than while deployed in Iraq.
- China's People's Daily says the Taliban is training "monkey terrorists" to kill Americans.
- No post-impeachment era president has the power to get a major treaty through the Senate. Senate kills international relations.
- Primer on Sarkozy's summer scandal.
- False rumor! God particle not found.
- Tour of BP's actual board game "Offshore Oil Strike."
- Jordan's Queen writes kids book about multiculturalism, refuses to have it published in Hebrew.
- American craft brewers seek to export to Europe.
- 2010 Times op-ed: Plagiarizing students are like "rap musicians," what with all the "sampling."
- See also: Michael Erard interviews the first student he busted for plagiarism.
- History of the "slush pile," which began as a fruit-related descriptor.
- "Rock Fans Outraged as Bob Dylan Goes Electronica."
- Some of us listen to our own music in our heads. Interview with a New York City window cleaner.
- Car review of the Arizona border patrol's Ford F-150 SVT Raptor.
- Research confirms personality divide between dog people and cat people.
- Elaborate prank to show Rupert Murdoch's disapproval of employees wearing shorts.
- Believing George was named after him, Steinbrenner approved Seinfeld's jokes only after he found them funny.