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Headlines from April 10, 2012

Iran plans to create its own internet.
Egyptians, upset presidential candidate is out over citizenship dispute, turn to Obama’s Facebook page.
Boys choir struggles with the ultimate foe: puberty and deepening voices.
Ad execs panic when study finds consumers in their 20s switch media formats nearly 30 times an hour.
You didn’t show cleavage in the office. Fact-checking Mad Men.
Visualizing the relative depths of lakes, oceans, and Chilean mines.
The curious link between bodybuilding and nation-building. #longreads
Some people…would have been happy if the first two rows of the audience were given slickers and blood got all over them. Revival of Carrie musical closes early.
Titanic’s story told through its wireless messages.
Photos from the secret government town of Oak Ridge, established in 1942 as a home to those developing the atomic bomb. #photos
Guy Adams chronicles former Scientologist Marty Rathbun’s change of heart.
South Africa stages first Mr. Gay Africa pageant.
John Goodman’s face on anime girls.
There’s time to figure out how to fix climate change, rather than wait for it to kill off 40% of living species. #opinions
Typically blamed on human ineptitude, the Titanic disaster may have been caused by rare states of nature.
Between 1912 and 1913 more than a hundred songs about the Titanic were published.
The first-ever complete map of the Titanic wreckage and debris field. #maps
Commodore PC founder and gaming pioneer Jack Tramiel dies, age 83.
Security researchers warn that many medical implants are vulnerable to hacking attacks.
Retiring concert singer on being asked to perform for the company behind thalidomide, which caused him to be born disabled.
Before-and-after photos of participants in the Barkley ultramarathon, so tough only 12 have ever finished.
Winning Intel Science Fair entry explains the self-healing bioluminescent wounds present at the Battle of Shiloh.
Vancouver becomes the first city to ban bagpipes.
Kinkade and Bush…borrowed from Ronald Reagan in promising that we could get back to a better way of life that never existed.
Book design catastrophe: “Advance praise for Hitler.”
Cannot find love. Screenshots of despair.