Headlines from February 9, 2012
- Panetta says not even our biggest “bunker buster” could reach underground Iranian nuclear installations.
- Brazil demands that Twitter ban users who warn of police speed traps and roadblocks.
- Coffee shops invade India, and young people enjoy them mostly for hanging out.
- Interview with Berlusconi as he prowls around his gigantic Rome apartment in thick makeup and stacked-heel sneakers.
- Reactions on Facebook to stories by The Onion that people believe are real. via
- Chart shows which information popular apps (Angry Birds, etc.) give away to third parties.
- Bringing iPads to the classroom helps Apple, not the kids. #opinions
- Screenshots from iPad lovers living “at the intersection of art, stories, and technology.”
- Poetry from Craigslist Missed Connections.
- Less said the better: Werner Herzog on chickens. #video
- Quick guide to National Security Agency jargon.
- This was pointed out to us, so we’ll point it out to you: a school named University of Maryland University College.
- Story of the plot to kill a man for life insurance, and the target who just wouldn’t die.
- Analyzing “Plitdown Man” could clear names of Arthur Conan Doyle and others implicated in archaeology’s greatest hoax.
- Classical musician argues for playing in bars: patrons enjoy “an enhanced degree of listening.”
- As a literary experience, it was pretty thin gruel. But like Oliver Twist, I wanted more. Sam Anderson goes to Dickens World.
- The key question is not whether Vladimir Putin—and Putinism—will survive. They will not. #opinions
- China reacts to jumping inflation by announcing it will raise the minimum wage 13% each year until 2015.
- And when poorly trained spokesmen and officials do speak…disasters often ensue. China’s continuing PR nightmare.
- When young Chinese want to learn American slang, they turn to OMG! Meiyu, a popular web video series.
- BBC tracks, confronts internet troll. #video
- Efraim Halevy: Syria is becoming Iran’s Achilles’ heel, and Israel is missing an opportunity.
- Recent violence reveals white supremacists have revived their dream of a Northwest homeland.
- Over the Thaipusam holiday, Tamils show their Hindu devotion through piercings, prayer. #photos
- “This Chart Is a Lonely Hunter”: the history of infographics and why they’re here to stay.
- Pre-1930 modernist lit mags now available in PDF.
- Thoroughly and precisely, a T-cell kills a cancer cell. #video