Headlines from February 2, 2012
- Egypt soccer tragedy claims 73 lives; security forces blamed after they disappeared when attacks began.
- We’re a little late to this, but still: Julian Assange to host show on Kremlin TV.
- Stem-cell researchers transform skin cells into brain cells.
- Pros and cons of Moon Base Gingrich—residents will be “highly educated, eco-friendly, and very likely dependent on vast government support.”
- Colorado residents divided whether to allow Christo’s “Over the River” project to proceed.
- LA School District investigates how it failed for five years to suspect a teacher accused of lewd acts toward students.
- Brazil considering law to allow employees checking email from home to apply for overtime.
- European executives to watch in 2012.
- America’s “no-fly” list doubled in 2011, rising to 21,000.
- NFL anticipates problems in 2016 labeling everyone a loser when it comes time for Super Bowl L.
- Radiolab on whether or not Fritz Haber, godfather of chemical warfare, was a bad person. #audio
- RIP, Wislawa Szymborska.
- Love, peace, and soul to Don Cornelius, 1937-2012.
- A match that felt like old-school naval warfare. Grantland’s take on the epic Australian Open final.
- Life inside America’s worst college basketball program, which finally snapped its losing streak after not winning a single game in 2011.
- Rural hospital recruits doctors by offering eight weeks of missionary leave.
- If God exists, he/she has a sparkling sense of humor. Review of a pole-dancing fitness class.
- Headlines say Obama is on the rebound, but maybe someone should tell swing voters in up-for-grabs states.
- Images of the “Great Successor,” Kim Jong Un, looking at things.
- Billions and millions expected for employees and friends of Facebook.
- Q&A on why the nation’s largest breast cancer charity cut off funding to Planned Parenthood.
- Notes on life inside Africa’s most expensive city, Angola’s Luanda.
- Russian scientists on the verge of entering lake that hasn’t been touched by light for more than 20 million years.
- Hemon on the “meticulous segregation” of children in Bosnian schools.
- See also: Zadie Smith on the “Writers Bloc” program.
- On the back of Nathan Englander’s blurb-gasm, an examination of where all the hyperbolic puff began.
- Studies: If you want to increase your creativity, lie in bed a little longer.
- Round-up of all items that Jonathan Franzen believes are bad for society.
- Kevin Durant says Blake Griffin dunk was no dunk at all, but a layup.
- Immersive video games used to treat wide variety of psychological disorders, from fear of spiders to germ-related terror. #longreads
- Molly Fischer on the blogosphere’s lady sites, and why none of them meet women’s needs.
- Appreciating the greatest figure in K-pop’s history, who wears neither heels nor skirt.