Headlines from May 3, 2012
- Personal genetics companies “don’t have any straightforward truths to offer users.”
- Details of a journey from Wall Street to Occupy Wall Street.
- Remarkable art made from forsaken dollar bills. #tmn
- Profile of Romney’s wealthy Bain colleague, now author of what may become “the most hated book of the year.”
- Colin Firth on being a bad dresser, regrets, and wooing his wife.
- Breaking up is hard to do with dignity—better to embrace every cliché. #opinions
- Nobody bought the albums, which seemed appropriate, since their subjects were invisible and forgotten. Documentary goes in search of musician Sixto Rodriguez.
- Millennials: Generation We or Generation Me? An examination of the data.
- Day in the life of tilt-shift Venice. #video
- Whiteboard of people’s inventions submitted to the New York Times.
- Japanese urinal video game rewards men for strong flow.
- Part one of a very long conversation between Greil Marcus and Simon Reynolds.
- Bad fan fiction in the style of Dune.
- New issues released from al Qaeda magazine, with a quiz and humor features along with killing advice.
- Dubai is recovering thanks to the Arab Spring and The New Silk Road.
- Americans call Pizza Hut’s pizza-cheeseburger hybrid an abomination—but the target market is the Middle East.
- Will Self eats noodles in London.
- Notes from the only debate between France’s final two presidential candidates before Sunday’s election.
- Measurements show student brain activity plunging during class.
- The best time to caramelize onions is yesterday. Rage against the conspiracy that says browning onions only takes 10 minutes. via
- New York now has an indoor food-truck court in a 19-floor building.
- Notes from the 19th-century trial of Albert J. Tirrell, the sleepwalking killer.
- For his next project, performance artist who grew an ear on his arm hopes to grow a second skin of microbes.
- Video of The Scream being sold for $120 million at auction yesterday.
- Reddit members use anonymous accounts to confess their worst crimes and secrets.
- Seven-page oral history of Friends, as told by its creators.
- Emotions from the advertising life brought to life with animated GIFs.
- Fiction enhances our ability to understand other people; it promotes a deep morality that cuts across religious and political creeds. Reading novels is good for you. #longreads