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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