Headlines from July 29, 2010
- How engineers stabilized the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
- Exiled from Iran, two brothers continue to produce controversial art in Dubai.
- Saudi feminist poet defies death threats.
- Analyzing the faith-intelligence correlation, researchers ask subjects if their religion is the "one true religion."
- Historians can't agree why portion sizes keep increasing in Last Supper depictions.
- The "suggestions for the best magazine articles (in English) ever" are 12% David Foster Wallace.
- In tomorrow's TMN newsletter: a conversation with Paul Ford and your monthly Map Quiz--sign up your inbox here.
- A new U.K. business employs refugees to construct ethical underwear.
- Investigating athletes' superstitions about lucky underwear, lucky balls.
- Catalonia becomes the first Spanish province to ban bullfighting.
- Video: For those who wish Kids was real, proof Times Square in the '80s was hella real.
- New York will solve the bedbug crisis by speaking very sternly to the bedbugs.
- TMN's Anthony Doerr offers his soundtrack for a night of dish-washing and sky-staring.
- "I wanted to be the first woman on the Moon: and I am totally disappointed that I could still fulfill that goal."
- Grim sampling of environmental fiascos depicts China's losing fight against pollution.
- After Chinese news chief disappears, rumors abound he defected to Britain.
- Story behind the publication of the Afghanistan logs.
- Story of Mo Farah's journey from Somalian refugee to European champion.
- Fifteen years later, Kids remains troubling--especially if it never existed.
- From the Gallery: Q&A with Aislinn Leggett, specialist in depicting tourism.
- It's the most bewitching, bewildering, beheading vacation spot you'll never vacation in. Dowd alliterates Arabia.
- Survey of what Christian guys find immodest in Christian girls (e.g., tights with designs; stretching).
- The more tense you are, the less you can hear. Yo-Yo Ma on controlling how you evolve.
- Study suggests people faking a mental illness might actually develop said illness.
- Wind farmers struggle to store (or dump) excess energy and control reliability.
- Instapaper: The laying of the first sustainable transatlantic telegraph line.
- Investigation into Graham Greene's family reveals gifted and talented "clan full of surprises."
- Linguist proves Plastic Bertrand didn't sing "Ca Plane Pour Moi."
- Video: High-quality turf dancing in Oakland.
- Excerpt of TMN's Kevin Guilfoile's The Thousand; BookPage interview with TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin.