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Headlines from May 9, 2012

Dilemma for the Outer Banks: Preserving wild horses could threaten birds and nesting turtles.
Creating an HIV vaccine is like trying to fire a gun at millions of shielded, moving targets. State of the vaccine effort.
Journalism is being replaced. #opinions
Blogger uses the Journal to speak out after the Chronicle of Higher Education fires her for mocking Black Studies.
Brief, accessible piece on the state of nihilism—laugh tracks optional.
Inside the kitschy decor of the modern Italian mobster house.
The new breed of Delta musicians needed an instrument that was affordable, portable, and capable of producing a wide variety of musical timbres. Sears, Roebuck & Co. midwifed the birth of the blues.
Musician and producer Steve Albini lets Reddit users ask him anything.
Why we need music: it defines the best of us.
What Tina Brown’s currently reading.
Related: Brown’s musings on Heydrich remind us of the wonderful HHhH, “the only essential piece of World War II fiction in years.”
Fake survey data from Fake Pew Research.
They pry the mind open: Jonah Lehrer on how cities incubate creativity.
Charles Murray dissects creativity, past and present.
Everything you need to know about Disneyland’s secret restroom, currently unavailable to the public.
New Yorker who grew up sharing a bed with her mother finally gets to sleep alone.
Greece’s exit from the euro zone now looking increasingly likely.
Bomber given the advanced underwear device found to be a CIA and Saudi intelligence informant.
Economics lessons on how to negotiate with pirates.
Notes on why the “broccoli argument” is a rhetorical tour de force that captures the anxieties of Obamacare’s enemies.
The fact that the Hindenburg had a smoking lounge teaches us a lot about risk, markets, and fashion.
How craft beers could save the economy.
An 11-year-old took a Stanford class online and all he got were some lousy videos.
R.I.P., Maurice Sendak, dead at 83.
Part one of the terrific Colbert-Sendak interviews. #video
Ferrari apologizes for burning rubber on a 14th-century Chinese wall with a new car dipped in “Marco Polo red.”
Nevada issues first license for a self-driving car.
Researchers ask bikers to record roadkill in the name of transportation advancement.
“Moto-polo”—played with motorbikes, duct-tape, and beer.
Tasting notes on a meal eaten with spoons coated with various metals.
All of the first investigations of the limits of life came about as an inadvertent byproduct of innovations in food preservation.
Twenty-nine touristy eating spots in America that are actually good.