Headlines from April 17, 2012
- Bizarre publicity stunts will appear in otherwise reasonable science articles as long as they draw attention.
- Two-thirds of people choose kosher products because they believe that they are made with high-quality ingredients. Economics of the matzo market.
- Now we know: The New York Times first published “asshole” while quoting Richard Nixon.
- H.P. Lovecraft’s commonplace book of fragments and ideas.
- See also: Lovecraft is dead; long live Lovecraft—an assessment of influence. #tmn
- Russian mathematician banned from travel due to beard trademarking problems.
- Non-Newtonian solids, aka Silly Putty, may prove to be a brilliant pothole fix.
- Straw man, bandwagon, no true Scotsman—an illustrated guide to logical fallacies.
- Twenty percent of Americans uninterested in going online.
- GQ interview with Derrick Rose, mature enough at 23 to avoid Twitter.
- Three books on the true nature of Paris, including the forthcoming title (next week!) from TMN’s @Rosecrans Baldwin.
- Regarding this morning’s headline about Churchill’s style: Blame the Victorians for making menswear boring. #tmn
- Jacket designer Peter Mendelsund on romantic mismatch and Simone de Beauvoir.
- We simply don’t have time to wait. Frustrated by FDA approvals, ALS patients home-brew experimental treatments.
- Spate of lawsuits arrive in New York courts from lawyers who find businesses with disabilities violations, then recruit plaintiffs.
- Researchers marvel at orangutans’ engineering skills while constructing their nests.
- Tanzanian farmers try to thwart crop-raiding elephant packs, which work in teams to wipe out farms.
- Stolen and returned: Penguins from Australian Sea World.
- Stolen and still missing: Tom Petty’s guitars.
- A brief history of anxiety in its many forms, more of which are added all the time.
- Historian blames “pushy parent syndrome” for the death of a high-achieving ancient Roman boy.
- Latest argument for U.S. decline cites overpraising of children as “quite un-immigrant and therefore quite un-American.”
- I thought it was going to be fancy: white people, you know, the U.S.A…But when I came here, I saw gang members, Latinos, African Americans, drug dealers, and homeless. #longreads
- How temporary interventions, such as cycling events, encourage LA residents to imagine a less tedious infrastructure.
- Alfred Hitchcock defines happiness as the “clear horizon” free of the destructive, where we can create something. #video
- Harvard scientist develops WikiCells, an edible, malleable membrane to be used as food packaging.
- The suits…looked like a cross between a child’s onesie and the boiler suits worn by bricklayers. Winston Churchill, man of style.