Headlines from June 7, 2012
- Quick summary of 50 years in Caribbean politics’ “centrifugal” power shifts.
- The working class votes red not because of misinformation, but because of the right’s strong vision. #opinions
- Women in northern Iraq commit suicide to avoid arranged marriages with their cousins.
- Design school is the new hotness in business education.
- Exactly how it sounds: tarp surfing. #video
- Bill Murray on life with his boys and why actors and artists should say no more than yes.
- Long piece (with incredible comments) on sex abuse at New York prep school Horace Mann. #longreads
- To move on after violence, basketball fandom can provide a way. #tmn
- Historical survey of the effective book-selling tactic: banning.
- Was prosecuting Charles Taylor worth the price? Interesting call for trickle-down justice.
- World’s tiniest car chase filmed without any CGI trickery. #video
- Improv Everywhere creates a 100-strong car alarm symphony.
- Remains of Shakespeare’s Curtain Theater, where Henry V premiered, unearthed in London.
- Call for music appreciation apps.
- Beautiful postmodern installation LUFTSCHLOSS by Anna Borgman and Candy Lenk.
- Photographs of Japan taken from waves just off the coastlines. #tmn
- Archival footage of the Golden Gate Bridge’s construction. #video
- Nasdaq pledges $40 million to settle broker disputes in Facebook IPO.
- Once you invest in Ponzify, you’ll have a difficult time investing your money anywhere else ever again. Silicon Valley’s next hot tech IPO. via
- Imagining life after a “total hack,” where everything you’ve clicked can be seen by everyone else.
- Chinese students stress over gao kao, notoriously difficult college entrance exams that can last three days.
- We really believed we would have flying cars and colonies on Mars by now. How did we get the future so wrong? #longreads
- The latest from Ray Bradbury, who died on Tuesday, in this week’s New Yorker: “Take Me Home.”
- You can imagine how exciting it was to do a book about book burning in the very presence of the hundreds of my beloveds on the shelves.
- The brutality and risks of opening a living person’s body have long been apparent. Two hundred years of surgery. via
- Because it’s sold in a convenience store, 7-11’s Big Gulp calorie bomb escapes Bloomberg’s big soda ban.
- Brazil lifts restriction on alcohol sales at soccer matches during the 2014 World Cup.
- Warning issued to players ahead of Euro 2012: Leaving the field due to racist incidents is an infraction.
- Justin Timberlake talks immortality, Botox, and his non-existent quarter-life crisis.
- With Andy Samberg’s departure from SNL, a look back at the best Digital Shorts.
- In case you missed Tuesday’s transit of Venus, a gallery of stunning images. #photos