Headlines from April 5, 2012
- Boredom, uncomfortable seats, and adjusting to a surreal moral universe: the unusual challenges faced by drone pilots.
- How to land a plane in an emergency: Look for a large green field.
- Reasonably frank interview with Google co-founder Larry Page after one year of being CEO.
- Wealthy Reddit members explain how they got that way.
- TMN’s Nozlee Samadzadeh divulges how she’d spend her last $100.
- Hyperrealist paintings of classic American cars. #tmn
- Reminder: TMN’s Tumblr, The Editors’ Desk, is now a visual version of our headlines.
- Harper Lee’s 100-year-old sister still practices law, puts herself to sleep at night by naming all the presidents.
- Notes on using the 1940 census to find out who used to live in your house.
- Gay doctor describes changes in the medical profession’s attitudes toward homosexuality.
- From Iceland to India, fasting has a long history as potent political protest.
- In China, a shred of sympathy for self-immolation exists, but not yet what the Dalai Lama envisions.
- Beijing is Charles De Gaulle, Newark is Burkina Faso. Gary Shteyngart goes to China.
- New poem by German Nobel laureate Günter Grass condemned for casting Israel as a threat to world peace.
- Tiger is asking us to remain complicit in that grand lie of infallibility long after it’s been publicly obliterated.
- Corey Feldman’s ultimate tragedy is that we can’t pity him: He’s got problems, but so do the rest of us. #opinions
- Study finds wearing a doctor’s white coat improves focus; wearing a painter’s white coat, not so much.
- Professional fingerboarder returns from injury to leap over flames. #video
- Pensioner kills himself outside Athens parliament, reportedly leaving note blaming austerity measures.
- Revenge-porn profiteer says he’s ready to get rich if an image he publishes causes someone to off themselves.
- Romney’s views on Europe are a caricature having little to do with Europe.
- Heilemann vets potential veep candidates for Mitt.
- Scotland’s first minister ties hopes of winning independence to memories of Bannockburn, where a Scottish king annihilated an English army.
- Over approximately 200 years of independence, Bolivia has lost about half its original territory. How Bolivia lost its hat.
- Head of top French university found dead in Manhattan hotel under “suspicious” circumstances.
- How to say goodbye to running.
- Sam Anderson on our current world of stupid hyperaddictive video games. #longreads
- Body Mass Index (BMI) most likely underestimating America’s rate of obesity.
- Chart shows clothes with the same size label becoming steadily larger over time.
- Life lesson: When your cat tries to warn you of impending disaster, don’t give him an enema.
- New RadioLab episode investigates guts, with Mary Roach exploring a cow stomach. #audio
- Hey, it’s not every day a witch admits her guilt!!! American history as reported by Perez Hilton.
- Pictures of Los Angeles, 1860-1886. via