Headlines from July 21, 2010
- Playboy tests "read it for the articles" theory, launches work-safe website.
- Digital analysis reveals that Michelangelo drew a brain stem inside a fresco of God.
- Finally: It takes 3,481 licks to get to the center of a Tootsie Roll pop.
- It is only when you scored high on both, sweat and fear, that you would succumb to cowardice. Scientists slip snakes into MRI machines with humans.
- Also: MRIs of fruits and vegetables.
- Illustration of 20 years of Mac and Windows computer icons.
- Theories why a Harvard-educated professor wants to teach at Glenn Beck's new university--"what would appear to be a sham academic exercise."
- Also: Beck may be going blind, and the health care Nazis aren't helping.
- Early diagnosis of breast cancer can increase survival rates, but may have disastrous effects on those who were never sick at all.
- Psychologist explains why we expect heroes to experience more hardship, less reward.
- The best book recommendations come from humans, including our own Biblioracle, John Warner.
- See also: Greetings From the Biblioracle and The Return of the Biblioracle.
- Clinton announces new sanctions against North Korea.
- Better Business Bureau gives Hamas an A- rating and Starbucks an F.
- Moscow's drinking-and-diving deaths brushed aside by uproar around a flying donkey.
- Op: Supreme Court nominees should be required to discuss the larger issues of constitutional philosophy.
- U.S. activists seek funds to sail a ship to Gaza named The Audacity of Hope.
- At last all is lost in scud and vapor. Melville on surfing.
- Everything you need to know about riding trains in Albania.
- See also: Ride a train, escape the internet: The Great American K-Hole.
- London-based Times lost 90% of its readers since erecting a paywall, says London-based Guardian.
- Comic explains why conspiracies are messy, human affairs; going to the moon was easier than creating a hoax.
- Op: Follow strangers on Twitter for your betterment.
- 4chan users attack Gawker, following report about them harrassing an 11-year-old.
- Spy's roundtable of people who have seen Jerry Lewis's lost Auschwitz movie, The Day the Clown Cried.
- Some of course hold up amusingly. Woody Allen records his stories for a website.
- Video: Thirty-five cinema classics graphically simplified and strung together.
- History of the original filesharing network: the bookmobile.
- Excerpts from a brief history of eccentric headache treatments.