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Headlines from December 6, 2011
- Syria to admit international observers, with strings; Hamas abandoning its Damascus headquarters to avoid taint.
- Global study says income inequality isn’t due to globalization.
- Nation’s moms demand Christmas lists.
- Guardian series investigates psychology behind the summer 2011 English riots.
- Oh, science journalism: “Creative People Cheat, Smart People Do Drugs.”
- International examples of salients (“panhandles”): narrow strips of territory poking out of a broader area.
- Lost male juvenile puffin found at sex clinic after it was thought to have been blown off course from winter migration.
- Premiering tonight on the Travel Channel, Hidden City by Marcus Sakey and TMN’s Kevin Guilfoile.
- Alleged “lost portrait” of Jane Austen suggests she wasn’t a cranky spinster, or at least did not resemble one.
- “Excited Mike Krzyzewski: Duke Squad Hasn’t Been This Unlikable in Years.”
- Lists of synonyms Walt Whitman drew up for his Lincoln elegy.
- Ryan Gosling photos mixed with pickup lines about biostatistics.
- Dude addresses why dudes are so quick to tell their female friends that the other guys in their life aren’t good enough for them.
- Recipe for “Halal Cart-Style Chicken and Rice With White Sauce.” via
- In the off-season, our ToB Rooster has been moonlighting as a sriracha model, or so it would appear.
- Top-secret war plans—to invade France—stolen from British embassy in Tehran, plus a Pulp Fiction poster.
- Top Twitter hashtag in 2011: #egypt.
- Blatant electoral fraud may have spared United Russia an even worse drubbing.
- Videos show thousands chanting “Putin is a thief!” in Moscow.
- Global Witness pulls out of the Kimberly Process, saying blood diamond prevention scheme is a failure.
- Where state laws are sold: DC’s American Legislative Exchange Council maintains a library with more than 800 models of legislation.
- We don’t get ourselves dry-cleaned. Round-up of Barney Frank’s best lines.
- Roundtable: Should workplaces ban or curtail email?
- A cheeseburger cannot exist outside of a highly developed, post-agrarian society.
- Fascinating discussion with Metallica’s manager on how rock bands surf currency shifts while touring abroad.
- Interview with Ewan Spencer, White Stripes photographer who walked up to the band in a bar in 2001.
- Fluxblog’s 183-song mix of “the best and most notable music from 2011.”
- BookRiot forecasts novels it would like to see in the 2012 Tournament of Books.
- Interview with Sunn O)))‘s Steven O’Malley on the black metal ‘zine he started at age 19.
- Astronomers find biggest black holes yet.