Headlines from March 8, 2012
- Frustrated new lawyers sue second-tier law schools for consumer fraud and inflated job-placement rates.
- Illustrated guide to criminal law.
- Wolf-whistles and sexist comments now illegal in much of Europe and possibly soon the UK.
- Japanese researchers invent speech-jamming gun.
- RepHresh is a company that makes pH-balancing gels and cleansers for your ladyparts. Science behind acidic tampons.
- “Alcohol a factor in woman’s cannonball death, authorities say.”
- Story of a boy whose parents owned a tennis club, who still couldn’t play to save his life.
- In remembrance of Rasheed Wallace’s career.
- Color-coded maps presented at sports analytics conference show NBA players’ preferred shots.
- Testing demands of No Child Left Behind send experienced teachers fleeing public schools.
- Travel writer seeks moody islands, rather than any “with the clamor of coddled children and the courtship of minor celebrities.”
- QR codes in strange places.
- See also: “Pictures of People Scanning QR Codes.”
- Collection of rare and previously unpublished photos of Johnny Cash.
- The GOP is deeply divided, and it may be to the Party’s advantage to have the actual primaries fail.
- No frosting. No frills. Keep on message. How to make a Santorum cake.
- Experts confused about new iPad’s lack of new name; evidence says names don’t affect Apple’s sales.
- Brazil overtakes UK to become world’s sixth-biggest economy.
- Turn-of-the 20th-century child mining as unappealing as it sounds.
- Big Spiegel report uncovers the many Nazis who found senior positions of power in West Germany.
- Women’s legal rights advance post-Arab Spring, but not political representation or safety.
- 2011 Rooster judge Weiner says women supporting women will see more women published.
- Round-up of women writers deserving more attention, by 2012 Rooster judge Alyssa Rosenberg.
- Oh, yeah: the 2012 Tournament of Books begins today. #therooster
- After a year of considering “intense analytical information,” Home Depot to no longer sell books.
- Choire Sicha sells his soul to Homeland Security for supposedly easier airport security checks.
- History, misconceptions, and reality of “a vernacular wrapped in a dialect inside a language”—Ebonics. #audio
- Slideshow of stunning works by early color photography master Ernst Haas.
- Pictures of the movie plaza a man built and ran in his basement.