Headlines from September 8, 2011
- Because it’s there: UK scientists hope to revive a 1970s satellite still in orbit.
- Has 9/11 spurred a great work of art—or was DeLillo right that terrorists are the myth-makers of our age?
- Neuroscientists discover that you probably weren’t where you thought you were on Sept. 11.
- From 1911, a Times headline announces the invention of the “psychometer,” aka polygraph.
- Cannabis consumption correlates to lower rates of obesity. #fitness
- Related: The price of pot across our fair nation.
- California court denies Rastafarian’s petition to legally change name to NJWeedman.com.
- Robert Birnbaum chats with Darin Strauss about the accidental death at the heart of his new memoir.
- The angry chef, the sweeper with a broom, the airline pilot…represent EU taxpayers in core countries. Europe’s crisis explained in Lego.
- A.V. Club presents 21 never-resolved or largely abandoned TV subplots.
- The 1960s were an especially fertile time for evil twins on television. #family
- Bad parking jobs bring out the best in angry windshield notes.
- NASCAR drivers attempt to explain away why they turned down Obama’s White House invitation. #badideas
- Proxy war fought by U.S. backed warlords in Somalia, helped create militant Islamist threat.
- Beyond refugee camps, a life of dignified exile avoids double-victimization.
- Images of the wildfires that have devastated central Texas this week. #photos
- Comparing the acreage destroyed by this season’s Texas wildfires: The damage would stretch from NYC to Philadelphia.
- There was a car outside my apartment block that got a few parking tickets in the days after 9/11. Eventually it started to get flowers.
- An oral historian began her project on 9/12, asking what people did with what happened.
- Sports don’t heal, but they give us protection so we can heal ourselves.
- China’s rich emigrants look for safe harbors to moor their wealth and invest—anywhere but China.
- With a United States of Europe increasingly likely, the battle for Europe’s soul begins.
- Analyzing Brevik’s manifesto reveals wide alliance of anti-Islamists, rooted in democratic far-right.
- Influencers explain marketing cool to students eager to engineer pop culture for commercial gain.
- Dutch government reverts to fax following Iranian hack, reveals essential need to anchor e-communications.
- With brains making decisions before the conscious mind, philosophy wrestles neuroscience.