Headlines from June 28, 2011

Dodgers owner McCourt files for Chapter 11, snubbing Selig, who rejected a deal to pay for McCourt's divorce.
Op: The Dodgers are rich in the fingers of Nancy Bea Hefley.
How a forensic psychologist turned courtroom testimony into big business, severing families for financial gain.
A look at the intersection of medicine and criminal justice, where brain tumors can end in pedophilia or a shooting spree.
LA becomes the latest school district to give up on homework, counting it for up to 10% of a grade.
After a data entry error kills a baby, a look at how hospital technology has resulted in accidental injury and death.
Former mathematics professor to open a museum that will celebrate geometry's inner beauty.
"If this were true[,] adios theory." Online repository reveals Darwin's marginalia.
This summer in Manhattan: An hour-and-a-half lecture on evolution, performed as a rap.
Clear your calendar for 2012, because there's a heck of a lot of LARPing on deck.
Turn-of-the-century films of mundane British activities.
See also: "The Crippling Fear of Corriearklet" by Giles Turnbull.
A documentary--"essentially an 88-minute takedown of tort reform"--shows how a frivolous lawsuit is anything but.
Not even Norma Jennings could save it from mediocrity. Eating out at four of TV's best-known restaurants.
Inside America's amateur football leagues, where players get $150 a game and the halftime entertainment is musical chairs.
For the second time in history, single disease eradicated from Earth: rinderpest, or "cattle plague."
Progress map of diabetes in adults finds rate doubling over 30 years.
Op: GOP leaders goad Obama because they lack an endgame that isn't compromise or explode.
"Strongman" seeking to make hay by fighting lion arrives with weapons, finds sleepy lion, declares W.
Superheroes rendered in flag format.
Alex Ross visits Stravinsky's grave (see also: Monteverdi, Rachmaninov, Zemlinsky).
Pictures from Glastonbury music festival.
Long read: "Mafia transplantation" study finds groups on new turf get homesick or quit being gangsters.
Mother Jones's Mac McClelland uses violent sex to recover from warzone-reporting PTSD.
Questionable prosecution tendencies found in cases involving people accused of killing children.
Oral history of Michael Bay's career: blowing things up, and making it bigger, bigger, bigger!
Chef David Chang on why he loves first class: endless champagne, endless email.
Larry David works through stages of grief with his golf game.
I do not have an Italian grandmother. My mother does not rinse kimchi in the dark. TMN's Rosecrans Baldwin composes ode to nachos.
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Lip balm addiction: Not a joke.
Video: Robot catches baseballs.