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Headlines from March 29, 2012

Eye-tracking computers of the future to not only register what we read, but how we read it.
Facebook may ban add-ons using the word “dislike,” but users can still “enemy” their “friends.”
Nanoputians, organic chemicals in the shape of people, grow from NanoToddler to NanoMonarch.
Japan rejoins the U.S. as the only leading developed nations to carry out the death penalty.
Knock for Knock trailer, in which Mogwai and Antony Crook visit Japan.
Video reports from inside Mongolia’s grunge scene.
The number 0093495, for example, represented an image of Olivia Newton slam-dunking a helmet while wearing spandex. Report from 2012’s memory championship.
Folklorist Alan Lomax’s entire audio archive now available online.
Photographs for 18 photographers. #tmn
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Brief essay on a counting compulsion.
Woman’s account of sleeping with her favorite male porn star, whom she picked up (very quickly) in a bar.
Thursday poem: “A Color of the Sky” by Tony Hoagland.
Self-driving Google car helps blind man fetch tacos. #video
OnStar subscribers can now receive texts and emails detailing the whereabouts of family members.
Never fear: Medvedev’s cat is A-OK.
Public debate on the Affordable Care Act closes, and now the justices retreat for several months to contemplate.
Headlines compete to riff on Jet Blue captain’s meltdown.
Self-defense militias attempt to protect citizens, but relief officials say they are worsening Congo’s crisis.
Thirty-four million people in the northern U.S. are in the midst of re-arranging their vowel system.
New algorithm may do what only humans have previously achieved: accurately tune instruments.
Journal article on “how to lower the volume of your sneeze” says never, ever plug your nose.
Earl Scruggs dies at 88.
Poet Adrienne Rich dies at 82 from complications of rheumatoid arthritis.
Adam Phillips on poetry as a form of therapy and the perils of reading psychoanalytical criticism.
Terrifying account of Dartmouth’s humiliation/vomit culture. #longreads
Notes from the wars between makers of waterproof-breathable fabrics.
The great Bob Silvers on the early days of the Paris Review and the New York Review of Books.
Foods pegged as “crack” sampled and rated for addictive qualities.
Today in the Tournament of Books, Kevin and John extrapolate what Walter Kirn might have said.
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