Headlines from May 4, 2012
- Schröder: Austerity is strangling Europe; a real political union is now required. #opinions
- In America in 1968, like Europe today, austerity was the goal; it is not so in America now.
- Law schools hire graduates to help them find jobs, and possibly to boost schools’ grad-employment rates.
- Story of the missing cosmonauts.
- Psychologist Margie Profet was a Genius Grant-certified rising star, then she disappeared without a trace.
- The idea that the U.S. can make a powerful country like China change its political and legal system simply by insisting on it—by “doing something”—is delusional.
- Yes, using the internet changes your brain, but so does making tea.
- Everything you need to know about “Call Me Maybe,” its deeper message and those many cover videos.
- Battle notes from the McDonald’s counteroffensive to convince skeptics they’re wrong about fast food. #longreads
- Zazzle’s loose formula for putting images on T-shirts and beer steins brings internet spam to life.
- The best designs in modern sci-fi.
- Books recommended by where they were read.
- How to obtain and keep a mentor.
- Reddit users attempt to convince members to love musical genres they say they hate.
- In Downton Abbey, Anglophiles enjoy a false nostalgia for the British country-house setting.
- Superhero origin story of Joss Whedon—pretty much responsible for our entire current pop culture.
- U.S. charges Yonas Fikre, an American who claims he was tortured, with conspiracy.
- Video shows assailants who killed Cairo protesters were armed; Army denies the thugs were their own.
- Romney’s experiment with an openly gay campaign aide short-lived.
- Love, Barry: Obama’s romantic youth.
- Charlie Sheen sues strip club to close down VIP room named in his honor.
- Framing explains why people can be blind to unethical decisions.
- The iPhone may be the most revolutionary development for blind people since the invention of Braille.
- Study suggests atheists are more motivated by compassion than the pious.
- First-time visitors to South Africa would do well to start in a comedy club.
- New film project documents our relationship with the 94 elements—attention on depleting resources.
- Fascinating account behind the stat that Americans over seven feet tall have a 17% chance of playing in the NBA.
- Horse racing threatened by too many horses and drugs, and too much money.
- MAD on advertising, from back when Don Draper’s hyperbole deserved to be mocked, not celebrated.
- Engineer admits he’s the one who made potato chip bags so hard to open.
- Many common smells were created by noses responsible for luxury perfumes.
- Wonderful: Radio Time Machine.