Headlines from June 1, 2012

It’s a bit of madness. Architect Anish Kapoor assesses London’s Olympic Tower.
A refreshingly old-fashioned spat between linguists and the New Yorker about the purpose of a dictionary.
Placement explains why Guinness bubbles sink instead of rise.
Clamshell packaging declared worse than NYC parking signs, pull handles on push doors.
Crab-tapping-at-my-window will probably go down in my personal life as the strangest way I’ve ever been woken up. #travel
Toxic plants and first aid advice, to review before your summer hike or picnic.
Don’t think of what you’re doing as dumbing down science. It is, but don’t think of it that way. Advice for science journalists.
My mind kept dredging up this one fact: that people can die from lack of sleep.
Once high fashion and bright colors, flight crew uniforms now signal trust and safety.
A survey of single-game baseball careers.
On star clusters, dwarf galaxies, and the birth of the Milk Way galaxy.
Fascinating: Japanese designer introduces a wooden lightbulb.
Prince Charles presents the weather on BBC Scotland.
Portraits of metalheads. #photos
Song for our Friday night, song for your Friday night: “Why Did You Do It” by Stretch. #video
Obama guns for the failures of “Romney economics” in Massachusetts.
Ladies, if you experience discrimination in an “open” or “wild” office, keep quiet and profit. #opinions
Elites in Egypt would like this election to be the revolution’s end; Tahrir youth see further.
Aaron Freeman puts to bed alter-ego Gene Ween, killing band Ween along the way.
There is no number. Accounting for mentors in Mad Men and Games of Thrones.
Viggo Mortensen loves soccer to the point of worrying airport security.
Coming tomorrow, the 2012 Internet Problem Solving Contest. via
Profiles of some of the 974 Major League baseball players who only participated in one game.
One man’s monthly appreciations of one-off classics by obscure artists and obscure classics by great artists.
States mapped out by minimum hourly wage required to afford renting a two-bedroom apartment.
States defined by pictures of sandwiches.
Mark Bittman’s matrix of cold soups.
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