Headlines from February 7, 2012
- Obama returns $200,000 linked to the family of a fugitive casino magnate.
- The barbarian leader was, for the most part, a man of his word Nice things about Attila the Hun.
- Notes on whether Italy can change its ways, or remain “more or less equally honored and dishonored.”
- Despite the lock-out, the NBA is doing very well, with viewership going “a bit nuts.”
- I wish that I had let myself be happier. Hospital nurse lists top regrets expressed prior to death.
- Story of former spouses, now step-siblings (her mother married his father), as they attempt to co-care for their aging parents.
- Twenty-five lessons learned from opening a bookstore. via
- Colleges from Dixie State to Harvard offering bathroom-naming opportunities to donors.
- Oldie but goodie: Dallas food blogger finds world’s most expensive chocolate in Plano.
- Pictures from the freeze in Europe.
- Last year, PWC estimated that the total weather derivatives market was $12 billion. How Wall Street profits off weather.
- Tale of the 34-year-old virgin who photographs his stool, optimizes his sperm, and has fathered 15 children while angering the FDA.
- Consider the perceptual challenges inherent in the robotic manipulation of unseen socks.
- New OkGo video features 1,000+ instruments struck by a moving car.
- Somehow we are late to this: The Collected Blurbs of Gary Shteyngart.
- “Are you eating your toenail?” Cataloging the precise moment when you know a relationship is over.
- After teacher arrests, LA school performs security theater for parents, temporarily replacing its entire staff.
- [In 1886] a pitcher for the Boston Beaneaters gave it in a joint team photograph with the rival New York Giants. When did the middle finger become offensive?
- In the U.S., an invented country freed from its past, a tough match lays ahead for soccer vs. football. #opinions
- Researchers force monkeys and humans to watch Clint Eastwood to discover their brain differences.
- Fake TV and movie violence is up, but real-world crime is down, and there appears to be a connection.
- Doctors perform first jaw transplant created from a 3D printer.
- Signature foods and slogans are so 20th century: Chattanooga is designing its own signature font.
- Thousands of private banks issued their own notes. A short history of American money.
- Pew findings show the difference of opinions between liberals and conservatives is greater than the gender gap.
- Simpsons toys banned in Iran.
- Ross may represent the final abandonment of hip-hop’s mandate to “keep it real.” SFJ profiles former corrections officer Rick Ross.
- Reporter boards indie-rock cruise to Cozumel with Weezer, Sebadoh, Dinosaur Jr., more.