Headlines from November 14, 2011
- At a military funeral, comrades talk about proper preparation of last wills and testaments.
- War seldom ever leads to good results. Reporter war-games an Israeli strike on Iran and things get ugly.
- Six million people die each year from smoking—more than from AIDS, malaria, and traffic accidents combined.
- Soon China will be where manufacturers look for cues—a place we visit to go shopping.
- Excerpt from a book about bad Wikipedia edits.
- Big market; product market fit; usability. Answers to “Why is U2 so popular?”
- Brian Eno on the difference between architects and gardeners, and how he sees himself and other composers as the latter.
- Haruki Murakami explains the novel-writing lessons he learned from jazz.
- R. Crumb on rejecting The New Yorker after they rejected his cover.
- What brings Mr. Epstein here? Story of the evening Brian Epstein met the Beatles.
- Artist prints out and installs every public photo posted on Flickr in 24 hours.
- Cellist loses memory, but is able to learn more music.
- Story of the man who loved buffalo, longed to find them in the wild, finally found one, and killed it.
- YouTube analysis reveals dogs chasing their tails a widespread and funny sign of pathological behavior.
- Rate of increase in new HIV cases in Greece predicted to rise to 60 percent by the end of 2011.
- Dallas Symphony, going Euro, to be bankrupt within 90 days.
- France demands to know why S&P sent out an (erroneous) email downgrading its credit rating.
- Romans spontaneously cheer Berlusconi’s downfall with the hallelujah chorus from the “Messiah.”
- Norway’s mass killer makes his first appearance in open court.
- Chart shows billions of dollars in uncashed travelers checks over time.
- Q&A with the minister and author overseeing Britain’s restructuring of university tuition fees.
- One in six British mobile phones is contaminated with fecal matter.
- Slideshow from the aircraft-carrier UNC-Michigan State game that Obama watched from center court.
- “The Saddest Sad Faces Of Sad Penn State Bros.”
- Journalism trend we could all do, well, without: the phony gulp.
- Profile of Hunter Moore, man behind the posting and identifying of nude pictures on “Is Anyone Up?”
- How and why a black-and-white silent French film is working its way onto Oscars short lists.
- Top on brewers’ wish list: Please stop drinking beer from growlers.
- No liquids at all so you dry out. Pre-show diet of Victoria’s Secret models.
- Jane Kramer follows the foodie trend of foraging with Denmark’s René Redzepi.
- Terrific column on the value of provenance in food and food marketing.
- Inmate sues over soy in prison food.
- The Thanksgiving meal should really be turkey with pesto—homegrown vanity and courage served with a pluralist topping.