Headlines from July 6, 2012
- Job numbers fall short of expectations and barely improve over May.
- Falling labor mobility in the U.S. may reflect a more efficient market.
- Overhead photographs of Mexican workers carpooling. #tmn
- Indian police are still administering illegal, dangerous “truth serum.”
- Inside the many conspiracy theories that say Arafat was assassinated.
- How to make sure you won’t lose internet access on Monday due to malware.
- Hawking loses $100 bet over whether the Higgs-Boson exists.
- Mendelsohn: Public figures who haven’t followed [Anderson Cooper’s] lead are still prisoners.
- Cooper’s coming-out provokes questions in China related to its nonacceptance of homosexuality.
- Young athletes who once might have been gymnasts are now becoming rock climbers.
- Among other things, Louie offers the best depiction of how comedians hang out and relate to one another.
- Fun to rewatch: Morley Safer takes on Jeff Koons and contemporary art. #video
- The Times emails a fictional character to fact-check a review, and winds up printing a correction.
- Round-up of rapping farmers. #video
- Clinton says China and Russia must “pay a price” for blocking UN sanctions that could help topple Assad.
- WSJ: In a stroke, Romney has contradicted Republicans across the country. #opinions
- Romney raised $100m in June.
- Global study finds Americans most likely to be anxious, followed by Colombians and New Zealanders.
- Q&A on Michele Obama’s family history—from slavery to the White House in five generations.
- We had to study those songs and make complete forgeries of them. Def Leppard re-records its catalog to make money apart from the record company.
- Guitarist plays through rock’s history of riffs in one take. #video
- Publisher to print Sound and Fury as Faulkner wanted: in colored inks.
- Not to be outdone, Hemingway’s Farewell to Arms being reprinted with 47 different endings.
- Smartphones may finally make carpooling feasible on a big scale.
- Bay Area “hacker hostels” offer cheap beds for Silicon Valley’s academics and dreamers.
- The days of thinking of time as a river—evenly flowing, always advancing—are over. Good Saturday-morning read on the nature of subjective timing. #longreads
- Robert Krulwich praises the vulture.
- London “toshers” had the worst job ever: sieving sewage for valuables while dodging Queen Rats.