Headlines from July 27, 2010
- New fatwa permits women in burqa-banning countries to wear only a headscarf.
- Researchers find continuing education delays dementia by 11% per year.
- See also: Eight notable commencement speeches and one written by 14 people.
- From Apriums to Peacotums--which are the same thing--fruit breeders deliberate hybrid crop names.
- The history of "state of the art," and why the phrase is meaningless.
- Today from 1 to 3 p.m. ET: Tell the Biblioracle the last five books you read, and he'll tell you what to read next.
- Pressure-detection technology lets paralyzed patients control wheelchairs by sniffing.
- Living in a cramped studio, TMN's Sarah Hepola tries to expand her cat's stomping grounds by putting him on a leash.
- Remembering the cash-strapped 1948 London Olympics, where ahtletes had to bring their own towels.
- I can chart my engagement with the streets of New York back to an evening soon after my arrival.
- Reaction: Look up and you'll see the water towers--they define our skyline.
- Following the McChrystal affair, WikiLeaks documents put "more nails into the coffin" of the White House's war.
- Op: If you're surprised by the WikiLeaks documents, you're an idiot! And no comparing them to the Pentagon Papers!
- The American people are going to have to accept that they will endure a level of terror that is more than zero.
- Economists fear deflation--and a Japan-like lost decade--may cripple U.S. growth.
- Slowly, in some law firms, the billable-hour billing model is being replaced.
- Vespa targets Asia's hot scooter markets and redesigns models for local preferences.
- Bowden: We pay Mexicans to kill Mexicans (25,000), and this slaughter has no effect on drug shipments or prices.
- Neural activity synchronizes between speaker and listener during storytelling.
- The song "Happy Birthday to You" is unpretentious and truthful, and its finest element is its octave leap.
- Life of a copyeditor requires humor--if you take hyphens seriously, you will surely go mad.
- Instapaper for the commute: Gawande on medicine's reluctance to let people die peacefully.
- Audio: Malcolm Gladwell tackles charge he's a "genius denier."
- "George Bush, Dark Prince of Love." Collection of awful real novels.
- Photos from Socotra Island, "the most alien-looking place on Earth."
- Stunning Big Picture photos of the Tour de France.