Headlines from June 28, 2012
- Chief Justice Roberts votes to uphold health-care reform, arguing the “individual mandate” is constitutional.
- Majority of Americans cannot name the Supreme Court’s chief justice.
- Examples of countries that have implemented near-universal health care.
- Interactive guide to the Affordable Care Act ruling’s key portions.
- Coloradoans fleeing wildfires see hell in the rearview mirror.
- Plano, Texas, named second most vain city in the U.S.
- The Minitel, France’s precursor to the internet, to be shut down; 2,500 dairy farmers to call for the inseminator by other means.
- Brief history of the remote control.
- Essay about the effect of a taxi cab on your brain when you’re a New York cyclist. #tmn
- See also: How not to kill a cyclist.
- Ethics of superhero journalists from Clark Kent to Peter Parker.
- What unfolds is remarkable. List of the 25 best movies of 2012.
- Concept credited to Nora Ephron: The One-Time-Only Book Club.
- Thursday fiction: Wonderful 79-word story by Jess Walter.
- Even when he does tell you everything, you can’t entirely trust it. John Jeremiah Sullivan on Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!
- The fight over the Affordable Care Act is a debate that’s lasted since the Articles of Confederation.
- In a program backed by the CDC, Walgreen’s to begin offering free HIV tests at its walk-in clinics.
- After finding little evidence it will produce tumors in humans, FDA approves weight-loss drug.
- Musicians respond to David Lowery’s NPR intern missive: You’re ignoring those who never profited. via
- It’s an agreement to not grow up together. Withnail & I is a rare example of getting the straight male breakup right.
- James Cameron is shooting three Avatar sequels simultaneously. #movies
- Brazilian inmates receive reduced sentences for writing book reports.
- Desolate Olympic stadiums after the big dance. #photos
- Sports science could be the key to shaving off the hundredth of a second necessary for an Olympic gold.
- Quiet down. Great White Men are speechifying. Hey Internet Girl. #memes
- A supercut of Sorkinisms. via #video
- Bad dinners like the one we went to last night. What Nora Ephron will and will not miss.