Headlines from June 21, 2012
- Prosecutors in Norway call for mass killer Breivik to be deemed insane.
- Supreme Court puts off deciding whether rock stars have a right to drop the F-bomb on TV.
- Supremes’ momentous healthcare decision could be announced today. Or not.
- Because you’re a westerner, they dared do no more. Belgian academic describes being tortured in Syria. via
- Horrible stories of American prisons driving inmates to madness.
- George Plimpton’s son on the voice of his “sweet old excited dad.”
- Data on where and how Americans spend money on alcohol.
- The most important social feature of laughter is how contagious it is. Report on what makes us laugh.
- P. T. Barnum on 19th-century rapping in Connecticut.
- Report on “kites” in prison—threats, reminders, mash notes, dinner invitations.
- Now that transistors are 22 nanometers (billionths of a meter) wide, to make them smaller we need to let them make mistakes.
- Reading Rainbow is back—as an app. via
- Roundtable on Wes Anderson’s fetishes and whether or not the new movie is any good. #tmn
- Turn the lights on, lady. That’s why you need coal mines. Report from the mining life. #longreads
- Christoffer Relander’s multiple-exposure pictures. #photography
- Obama has a unique opportunity to rebuild a mutually beneficial alliance between Turkey and Israel. #opinions
- World’s largest ministry for gay Christians no longer trying to “cure” homosexuality.
- Montana GOP ends efforts to make homosexual acts illegal, reinforces its opposition to gay marriage.
- It’s precisely not what’s happening in Egypt right now. The latest wave of demonstrators isn’t another revolution.
- Rio was full of a sound to which that joyous city is unaccustomed: the collective moan of 40,000 environmentalists.
- As parts of the U.S. swelter, Brazil welcomes winter.
- Painter of athletes LeRoy Neiman dies, age 91. #obit
- U.S. students are better at taking science exams than solving scientific problems. #education
- You have just proved your import to the world. You are superior. RIP grammar.
- Profile of that rarest of people: a copy editor who became a millionaire.
- Notes on language and math from Borges’s late-in-life visit to Cambridge.
- Scammers say they’re from Nigeria precisely so only the most gullible will respond.
- Spot the grammar error in First-Person Tutor. via #games