Headlines from April 24, 2012
- New book by TMN’s @Rosecrans, Paris, I Love You But You’re Bringing Me Down now available.
- Guide to France’s history of delightfully conquering people. #tmn
- Interactive guide to Warren Buffett’s thoughts about others.
- Brief investigation into why Kevin Hart, the biggest comic working, isn’t famous.
- How erotica writers fought PayPal’s censorship policies and won.
- Missing pages published from Laurent Binet’s fantastic HHhH in which he grapples with The Kindly Ones.
- We cannot enrich the minds of our students by testing them on texts that purposely ignore their hearts.
- North Carolina to capitalize on tourism from Hunger Games superfans.
- Woolrich and others strive to sell clothing to people who carry concealed weapons.
- Related: Man compares shirts designed to hide his “widow maker.”
- Lapham: I’m content to regard the Internet as the best and brightest machine ever made by man.
- To a psychologist, lots of our rituals look like the useless actions of rats.
- Party of seven all wearing flip-flops in plain sight. List of mental health-code violations in a restaurant.
- “Cyber Cyrano” helps men get dates by assuming their online identity.
- One in two new college graduates in the U.S. are jobless or underemployed.
- Weak economy, deportation threat reverses trend of Mexican immigration to the U.S. for the first time in four decades.
- I can hear them mocking me for when I called for an end to the destruction, like I’m a fool for believing in peace. Rodney King, 20 years after the riots.
- London accused of “social cleansing” over plan to move low-income families 160 miles away from the Olympic Park.
- Americanized children cannot accept the basic terms in which their parents think, since those terms deny that different opinions have any legitimacy. #longreads
- Thinking in a foreign language lessens cognitive biases.
- Study finds too much deliberation about eyewitness memory leads to poorer recall; to get better results, force a decision.
- Chef Grant Achatz wants to enhance patrons’ experiences with cello music choreographed to the dining room.
- Yankees-branded fragrance “exudes confidence, strength, and classic timelessness.”
- Romney, Obama face challenges with pet lovers; the former transported his pooch to Canada on the car roof, the latter ate dog meat in Indonesia.
- In defense of soldiers who photograph their kills—everyone does it.
- Scientists spot a rare white killer whale near Russia. #video