Headlines from November 16, 2011
- Majority of business executives bring their own lunch to work, drive an SUV, part their hair on the right.
- Anger grows in Europe against “what is increasingly viewed as harsh German domination.”
- Tourists in LA can’t name three Germans, though an Austrian does come to mind. #video
- First covers from famous magazines.
- History and mystery of the high five. #audio
- “Beyoncé Songs Re-Imagined as Undergraduate Theses in Women’s and Gender Studies.”
- Social media legal negotiations and defriending rules of a couple breaking up.
- Medical notes from Bruce Wayne’s latest checkup with his physician.
- Least exciting comic book action sequence of all time.
- Reminder: Today’s your last chance to become TMN’s reader judge for the 2012 Tournament of Books.
- “Roth’s legacy of writerly narcissism left a generation of young novelists with the wrong idea of what makes great literature.” #opinions
- Beginning runners should avoid advice about technique and form.
- Science for why leftovers change flavor in the fridge, and some suddenly gain umami.
- I’m sure that this hotel chain did not set out to convert its showers into a consumer behavior laboratory. Ruminations on the dual showerhead.
- Syrian army defectors attack military base near Damascus, opposition groups say.
- China’s Confucius Peace Prize—to rival the Nobel—given to Putin this year for waging war.
- Mongolia to build enormous ice shield to help cool and water Ulan Bator during summer.
- To combat burger inflation, Argentina’s domestic trade minister persuaded McDonald’s to lower its Big Mac price.
- When it comes to economics, economists “have a more sophisticated lack of understanding than the guy on the street.”
- Economist on what’s next for the NBA.
- Child-abuse scandal unfolding at The Citadel depressingly similar to Penn State’s.
- America and Europe’s common problem: The economic crisis has ruined our taste for mainstream politicians.
- Ford Theater stocks Bill O’Reilly’s Killing Lincoln in the gift shop, not the museum bookstore, due to sloppy facts.
- Map shows Manhattan’s grid extended to every point on Earth.
- Send us evidence of how close the recession/recovery is to your doorstep.
- This announcement is open to all qualified U.S. citizens. NASA has a need for astronaut candidates. via
- Clothes of Kay Corleone deconstructed.
- Someone convinced the BBC to turn a poem about lunch into a short film with Alan Rickman and Emma Thompson, and thankful are we that they did.
- That short film: “The Song of Lunch.” #video
- Sometimes the prettiest boys don’t realize they’re pretty. Paul Newman: Decency manifest.