Headlines from March 16, 2012

Interactive graphic shows the scale of the universe, from the Kuiper belt to humans to a helium nucleus.
A jumprope that shifts space and time on every jump. #video
Timeline of recent moral panics, from “pharm parties” to “buttchugs.”
Prank robo-calls tell voters in Canada that their polling stations have changed.
Neuroscientists race to study split-brain patients as their numbers decrease.
Notes on recording soundscapes, the “extinction of silence,” and humans’ explosive noises. #longreads
Pictures of French dancers floating in supermarkets.
Kiss, everyone kiss. House rules for parties in Ames, Iowa.
Bette Davis says “son of a bitch,” other Holllywood bloopers. #video
Southern Miss students chant “Where’s your green card” at Kansas State player from Puerto Rico.
“Seafood freak” measures the Gulf’s recovery by the current taste of gumbo.
Today in #TheRooster: The Hairpin’s Edith Zimmerman can’t find a book she likes.
Thanks to ToB presenter Field Notes, you’ll get a free notebook with any purchase (coupon code ROOSTER).
Iran’s guns meet Zimbabwe’s uranium—matchmaking in the crushing-sanctions world.
He is very French: arrogant, smug, He’s playable. I will do it, because I don’t like him. Depardieu to play Strauss-Kahn.
“Dawn of design” found in India, though skilled young people prefer to be artists “for money and glory.”
Sixty-five percent of Indian households still use firewood, crop residue, or cow dung as their primary source of energy.
Lifetime user of Vitamin C begins to wonder why.
DNA evidence exonerates dozens of wrongly imprisoned men in Virginia, who have yet to be told.
For sale: prison-cell upgrade; your doctor’s cellphone number; the right to pollute.
Chart shows which American states convict the most corrupt officials.
Pictures from seven years spent in six American towns called Boonville.
Thirty-one notes on the case of the “crazy” athlete.
Investigation of the hairless blue dogs famed as “Texas chupacabras.”
Francis Lam on a Japanese sushi master, who runs a restaurant inside a Tokyo subway station.
The Killing prays to win back superviewers by saying exactly when they’ll learn the killer’s name.
If you must, kiss them once on the forehead when they say good night. Shake hands with them in the morning. Bestselling parenting advice in 1928.