Headlines from April 26, 2012
- Hague finds Charles Taylor guilty of aiding Sierra Leone war crimes.
- Forty thousand Norwegians gather to sing children’s song despised by Norwegian killer.
- Then-and-now photo feature by the LA Weekly looks at the LA riots 20 years later.
- Clean Air Act credited for 10-year low in air pollution.
- When religion is politics and the median age is 27, changes are coming for sex-obsessed Iran.
- Pictures from a crane of emergencies in the Netherlands. #tmn
- In case you were wondering what it’s like to have your home destroyed by a storm. #tmn
- Ode to the Mercator, the first map to help people get where they wanted to go.
- Reflexively calling women “crazy” is a habit young men need to learn to break. Tripe from XOJane refuted.
- Werner Herzog reads from Cormac McCarthy, whom he adores. #audio
- China gets a chance to help produce Avatar sequels.
- How do you eat a whale? One bite at a time. Six filmmaking tips, which apply to other practices, from David Fincher.
- James Murphy, formerly of LCD Soundsystem, lists 15 songs that saved his life.
- Few, if any, ever believed that rebellion was a distressed leather jacket from J. Crew.
- On the criminalization of bad mothers. #longreads
- Unrelated: How to throw a shrimp boil.
- China expected to eat more than twice as much meat as America this year.
- Food sources increasingly encourage carnivores—red foxes, coyotes—to trade natural habitats for urban areas.
- Testing of nuclear-capable missiles continues, and now it’s Pakistan’s turn.
- Atlantic story refuted: Facebook isn’t making us lonely—and we’re not all that lonely to begin with.
- Report we missed about the crisis in American walking—strolls are missing from the marketplace.
- Doodling in the workplace is now encouraged if only to keep people awake in meetings.
- Design proposals for California farmland aim to protect water supply and food systems.
- Eight things learned from reading every word in The Economist, April 21-27.
- Gathering of bibliographic information about modernist little magazines.
- Novellas, the original #longread, have returned, though publishers remain wary about the form.
- Trend piece about romantic friction caused by social networking features TMN’s own Nozlee.
- Emails and texts aren’t writing, they’re talking with fingers. #opinions
- Should you want to turn your iPhone into a 1980s brickphone, all you need is a 3D printer.
- Evolution of the New Orleans Eris Krewe sees scaling problems similar to the Occupy’s.
- I’m attracted to the same inane stuff that all the other 8-year-olds on the internet like. Artist specializes in GIF collages.