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Headlines from July 10, 2012
- Report shows that drillers’ frack water can rise up from more than a mile underground.
- Three months later, judge Cunningham explains why there was no fiction Pulitzer this year.
- Correspondence between Fitzgerald and his editor over finishing The Great Gatsby.
- New game: Was that a quote from Romney or Gatsby?
- Compilation of the best and worst one-star reviews on Amazon. #tmn
- I would love it if a bunch of angry right-wingers stopped saying stupid things about me. Confessions of a a right-wing child star.
- Woman uses cell phone to take pictures during an abortion to contrast pro-life camp’s grotesquerie.
- Pakistani children draw pictures of what corruption looks like. #tmn
- “Underparenting” classes now available for helicopter parents.
- When I was growing up, many of my relatives had never seen a black person before. African drumming in Istanbul.
- Man plays 18-mile golf course (with just one hole) across Detroit.
- Underindulging—temporarily giving up chocolate, even when we have the cash to buy all we want—can renew our enjoyment of the things we love.
- Always worth remembering, many hours can be spent enjoyably touring the Museum of Online Museums.
- Kathleen Turner, John Cusack, others pick their top five films.
- Pictures of drunk 20-year-old bros in 1982 Detroit. #photography
- Physicists say Batman’s cape not a safe way to travel.
- When you don’t want what everyone else wants, time for climbing comes surprisingly easy. Tribute to a fallen, fellow-dirtbag climbing partner.
- Past year in the U.S. has been the hottest since modern record-keeping began in 1895.
- Investigation into how Gallup and other polling groups conduct studies.
- How America rates countries on their efforts to prevent human trafficking. #chart
- Called not black enough, Wayne Brady offers to happily slap Bill Maher in front of his black prostitutes.
- Trailer for new Seinfeld show finds comedians out getting coffee in Seinfeld’s car collection. #video
- Federal judge dismisses Lance Armstrong’s lawsuit against U.S. Anti-Doping Agency.
- New Orleans fixture Uncle Lionel dies at 80 from cancer.
- A recent history of India through western magazine covers.
- Liberia’s army, trained by the U.S. military over the last six years, goes after mercenaries and rebels. #audio
- Story of the first American to join the Chinese Communist Party.
- North Korean dictator commissions Disney show—not the first time Mickey’s been popular in Communist nations.
- Experts choose the greatest pianists and explain why, from Schnabel to Rachmaninov.
- Today’s feel-good Polish street art.