Headlines from April 3, 2012
- Leading investor says China needs “at least 20 years” before its economy becomes innovative and creative.
- Three-hundred electric DeLoreans to hit the market at $90,000 a pop.
- Less than 15% of meals served in France follow the three-course model (as honored by Unesco).
- No matter who wins the presidential election, France’s picnicking days are over, says the Economist.
- More than 5,000 women have been murdered in Guatemala since 2000; 2% of cases received legal action.
- Records of people’s effects from the Titanic.
- Arguments by historians: God was a girl, Jesus was a hermaphrodite.
- Reasons why people have children subjected to morally rigorous analysis.
- Adam Curtis connects yoga, bodybuilding, and nation-building with videos and smart ties.
- To help a poem hatch, I went to get some groceries. Paid the cashier, got my change, came home with a poem and no groceries. Vera Pavlova’s notebook.
- Photographs in which Myoung Ho Lee turns trees into art with backdrops. #tmn
- TMN’s Tumblr relaunched with our daily headlines visualized.
- Fun to re-read: Zadie Smith on Obama’s voice, voices in books, and fitting in among black New Yorkers.
- “The Greatest Bromances in Southern Literature.”
- Slideshow of U.S. cities’ most famous cryptids (imaginary monsters).
- Kickstarter of the week: Documentary about an Indiana basketball team that just wants to win one game.
- Boomers’ wealth drives the future of America, where the young are economic collateral damage.
- Boomer anxiety about aging may explain the sudden popularity of Snow White.
- AARP poll finds more grandparents are spending more on their grandchildren.
- Socio-economic thoughts occur when a waiter nabs your money while you’re on vacation in Cuba.
- Dartmouth president Kim assured of World Bank job despite better-qualified Nigerian candidate.
- Kim on Dartmouth’s vomitoriums: “One of the things you learn as an anthropologist, you don’t come in and change the culture.”
- Supreme Court rules it’s OK for you to be strip-searched pretty much anywhere for any reason.
- Pressured to improve grades, more than a third of UK teachers admit they’d help students cheat.
- News of the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s final print edition ignites sales boom.
- We’ve talked to the police but they don’t take it seriously. Biofuel’s popularity soars; so does theft of used cooking oil.
- Netherlands likely to restrict drug sales to natives.
- Inside an industrial kitchen for medicinal-marijuana baked goods.
- William F. Buckley’s war on reality-distorting anti-Communists hints at what he might think of today’s GOP.
- Climate change projections compared from 1982 to 2012. #video
- With concise characters, Chinese is the ideal micro-blog language. #infographic
- Components analyzed from a 26-ingredient school lunch burger.