Headlines from October 11, 2011
- Largest virus yet discovered isolated from ocean water near Chile.
- Instead of showing Latinos working in restaurants, ads now find them eating there.
- Bankers who claim their institutions are solid are like horror-film actors going for late-night forest strolls.
- Mo Ibrahim’s $5 million prize for “achievement in African leadership” finally finds a recipient.
- Stephen Pinker’s argument that we are becoming less violent is nonsense. #opinions
- Krugman: “Listening to the defenders of the wealthy, you’d think Warren was the second coming of Leon Trotsky.”
- So much unwanted junk—shirts, teddy bears—is dumped on the developing world, there’s even a hashtag about it.
- Thomas Curwen profiles student morticians as they prepare to enter an invisible industry.
- Invisibility cloaks—“Optifade,” from the makers of Gore-Tex—coming soon for deer hunters.
- Readers’ top 100 science-fiction and fantasy titles.
- TMN’s Alexander Chee discusses Tarot today at 1:20 PM EST.
- Related: “The Querent.”
- Gaiman interviews Terry Pratchett on his new novel and being respectable.
- Painters to watch recommended by Anne Ellegood, Senior Curator at LA’s Hammer Museum.
- Mel Brooks’s The Critic (1963). #shortfilms
- Notes on old cartoons from when prohibition was a laughing matter in the New Yorker.
- Employment in Pennsylvania liquor stores not recommended, unless you’re looking for stories to steal.
- UN finds systematic torture of detainees at sites run by Afghanistan’s intelligence service and national police.
- Iranian actress sentenced to 90 lashes for appearing in film about Tehran.
- School lockers, “the latest frontier in nesting,” carpeted and wallpapered.
- Remnants of a 1953 European motorcycle tour. via #photography
- It doesn’t take long to discern an earnest, underlying orderliness. Hendrik Hertzberg visits Wall Street’s occupied Zuccotti Park.
- Bloomberg says occupiers can stay in Zuccotti indefinitely.
- The anger is not so much about replacing politicians as it is a complaint about the nature of government and the corrupting influence of money.
- When was the term “great depression” first linked to the 1929 crash?
- Apples-to-apples comparison of what’s happened to household income every month since January 2000.
- Stars align—storied teams, plus little to no NBA—for a fantastic men’s college basketball season.
- Ex-NBA player who was shot in a club learns to walk again with a doctor and former classmate he saw on TV.
- Anna Clark recounts life of Sammy Wanjiru, champion marathoner who jumped, fell, or was pushed to death.
- Mountain biker in South Africa tackled by a buck. #video
- Brazilian island overrun with pit vipers very not safe for humans.