Headlines from May 25, 2012

New research shows Mars “has life’s building blocks,” though there’s still no sign of fossilized SUVs.
When you in factor in inflation, they’ve taken a 25 percent pay cut in the last six years. The hidden costs of being a New York City cabbie.
After inadvertently transporting shellfish across the ocean, deep-sea scientists warn against removing organisms from their habitats.
Unlike private firms, the USDA doesn’t need permission from a court to start collecting on unpaid debts.
Today’s bulging backpack is a far cry from the bag’s minimalist, adventurous roots.
Book jackets aren’t dead in the Kindle age, we just need to refocus on function. #longreads
Marie Curie, Segway founder James Heselden, and other inventors killed by their own inventions.
I have pretended to be over fifty different Pokémon characters. The cooler me: A dad finds his doppelgänger.
RVs have long been bound up in the American myth of freedom and mobility and independence, with allusions to the covered wagon, that symbol of the Western frontier.
The British Film Institute’s painstaking effort to restore nine of Hitchcock’s silent films.
Do you hate Dickens’s stuff? I can’t read it. Wodehouse’s comic gift: repressing unpleasantness.
Coach Taylor makes a guest appearance at Buzz Bissinger’s book reading in Austin.
Trailer for Baz Luhrmann’s The Great Gatsby. #video
State Dept. human rights report turns the spotlight on China for deteriorating conditions.
Do you know how many people in Qingdao can’t afford medical cost? Chinese citizens revolt over a $630 million plan to plant trees.
People who do not know the Bible well have been gulled into thinking it is a good guide to morality.
Solar plane takes off from Switzerland, heads for Morocco on trial flight for round-the-world trip.
A weightlifting machine for weightless astronauts. #video
First installment of Jennifer Egan’s “Black Box,” as serialized on Twitter.
Tattoos and their origin stories.
You can make fun of only things that only you can make fun of. Inside the Qatari comedy scene.
Old but gold: Kevin Guilfoile and John Warner’s series on Jai al-Leno, Afghanistan’s late-night comic.
Scientists analyze German idea of fun, conclude that Germans just can’t enjoy themselves.
What your favorite Wes Anderson film says about you.
The grannies wrote the song themselves in their native tongue, Udmurt. The worst songs of Eurovision 2012.