Headlines from February 15, 2012
- Governments begin to use lotteries to encourage good citizenship.
- Travel agents routinely beat online sites for finding cheaper fares; if the agent has a horrible website, they’re probably legit.
- Long investigation into how iPhone apps use information stored in your address book.
- Critique of journalism, PR, and attack dogs in “the cesspool” of Silicon Valley.
- Q&A with author Cheryl Strayed, revealed to be the Rumpus’s Dear Sugar columnist.
- Chicago’s new magazine, The Chicagoan, to go highbrow about the city and Midwestern stories.
- London and New York taxis could learn lessons from Tehran’s “sophisticated eco-system of cab options.”
- Reminder: Sharks are alone on Valentine’s Day and every other day. #photographs
- Everything you wanted to know about the extraordinary history of the American wild hog.
- Short film about Bermuda’s Johnny Barnes, who spends six hours a day wishing love to cars.
- “Jeremy Lin can drop 38 points on the Lakers, but he can’t open the n-word to white or Asian people.”
- Profile of Coleridge’s son, pegged as poetry’s biggest disappointment.
- Pictures of Michael Cunningham’s bookcases, including his built-in bathroom storage.
- Jamie Oliver finds guns, gold, and Joy Division master tapes in the basement of his new restaurant.
- Roche issues an alert that a fake version of its cancer drug, without its active ingredient, is circulating in the U.S.
- Document leak reveals a libertarian thinktank’s strategy to discredit climate-change science.
- The Colorado River rarely reaches the sea; now U.S. and Mexican officials are searching for a way to feed it again.
- Wooden sailboat to be employed in symbolic “slow trade” routes across the Atlantic.
- Supreme Court Justice Breyer robbed at machete-point near his Caribbean home.
- Authors with opposing views on American decline correspond about their books and theories.
- If he makes it to the league and plays a White game, this will all be for nothing. What the success of Jeremy Lin means to Asian-Americans. #opinions
- Brooklyn girls’ basketball team keeps winning in a season in which its coach died and after which its school will close.
- The last time Picasso’s Guernica was in the UK, it was nailed to the wall of a Ford dealership in Manchester.
- Mormon Church apologizes for posthumously baptizing Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal.
- Related: “The Mormons: Our Secret Weapon in the War on Terror.”
- There is a difference between saying, “Hey, you faggot” and “Hey, faggot.” Lesbian rapper Syd the Kyd on homophobic slurs.
- The algebra of love by Dylan (with a brief appearance by Costello).