Headlines from August 27, 2010
- Chilean miners receive special diet to maintain wiggling weight, plus games and antidepressants.
- War consists largely of the endless tinkering with PowerPoint. Colonel's take on two months of doing nothing in Afghanistan.
- Long read: Afghanistan encounters with raw soldiers, small pieces of truth, bored gunners, and the Hash Monster.
- Designer behind the Cordoba Initiative's logo disappointed to see her mark missing from the mosque hubbub.
- Early humans ate each other for both political and nutritional gain.
- New data suggests squatting beats sitting: article on proper defecation techniques.
- U.S. economy is the Pittsburgh Pirates: owners squatting on cash, refusing to hire new talent.
- Face behind the latest Vampire Weekend album sues after seeing the cover.
- TMN readers, what's your hot jam of forever?
- Survey conducted by Refrigeration News found 72 percent of respondents installing dummy thermostats.
- All-access, non-exclusive profile of Kanye West based on Tweets and online photos.
- Things we think Kanye would like: hungover owls; life in a world of logos.
- Video: Jerry Stiller visits the real Costanza house in Queens.
- French novelist Michel Houellebecq commits suicide in his new novel.
- History of the failure to develop an English gender-neutral pronoun.
- Summer of TMN books: Kakutani rave for Guilfoile's "hectic, bloodstained" The Thousand.