Headlines from February 28, 2012
- Obama administration more prone than any in history to silence and prosecute federal workers.
- Chart: Where not to be a toddler.
- DC-area plastic surgeon developing procedures for people concerned about their appearance during video calls.
- Pictures of the nearly forgotten mailbox.
- For those seeking to learn a second language after English, consider the most useful: French. #opinions
- Profile of French alpine photographers. #video
- Day in the life of an Athens bookstore/cafe that can neither sell books nor make coffee.
- Beautiful bookstores dumbly make their setup—not products—the focus.
- One southern magazine editor doth trash-eth another (too much?) for mirepresenting the South.
- Ally Sheedy’s life examined through her literary career.
- Pictures of Berndnaut Smilde’s sculptures, installations, and stunning clouds briefly formed in rooms.
- Examples of mechanical jewelry with wings.
- Guide to making McDonalds’s fries at home, calipers optional.
- Related nerd alert: The recommended viewing sequence for Star Wars virgins is “Machete Order.”
- Stratfor is hardly the super-secret intelligence org WikiLeaks wants us to believe.
- Cuyahoga County late-night news station acts out racketeering trial with puppets.
- Explained: The idea of a climate change hoax is ridiculous. #infographic
- The one that Santorum did of Romney with the machine gun was just ludicrous, just a stupid ad. Q&A with the creator of LBJ’s “Daisy” ad.
- TSG digs into the story of a banker who left a 1% restaurant tip—the receipt is a fake.
- Inside the dehumanizing world of the online warehouse wage slave. #longreads
- Study: Rich more likely to take candy from babies.
- Kit Kats of the world. #photos
- Seattle declares “public safety emergency” after an alarming spike in street crime.
- Sleeping pills linked to death, cancer—may have killed a half-million Americans in 2010.
- Early diagnosis can lead to over-diagnosis of non-conditions, turning the healthy sick. #opinions
- Testing whether working out intensely three minutes a week is all the fitness you need.
- To halt the decline of America, make more Americans. #opinions
- Linguists credit women in their teens and 20s with speech trends, including the “vocal fry.”