Headlines from September 27, 2012
- Republicans aren’t asking the other half of Reagan’s question: “Do you feel safer than you did four years ago?”
- Romney’s apparent fear of flying is worth mention—just being president requires intense physical hardiness.
- Related: Choire Sicha dons the Non-Expert blazer to explain the best day and time to book an airline flight. #tmn
- University of California to pay $30,000 to each of the 21 protestors pepper-sprayed by campus police.
- Crowdcrit and the war on silly things—e.g. Apple Maps, Bic for Her. #internet
- Astoundingly detailed Katz’s Delicatessen in miniature.
- Our bodies are designed to work best cognitively in the mornings, and physically in the afternoons—not that we pay attention.
- Eager to receive modern medical care, many Russians are signing up for experimental treatments. #health
- As evidenced by the recent 20/20 segment on binge drinking, news shows love a good moral panic narrative.
- I told my wife I couldn’t go…I told her it wasn’t appropriate for a man like me to dress up as a vicar.
- Excavators find the trunk of a 5,000-year-old giant oak in England.
- Arizona ski resort plans to make fake snow from treated sewage—local Navajo tribe warns it will desecrate sacred land.
- I ripped it open and there was a tupperware lunchbox inside full of ashes. Leo Traynor meets his internet stalker.
- Listen to an unreleased album of Brian Eno’s ambient music recorded for movie and TV backgrounds.
- Report finds people in areas targeted by Obama’s drone campaign are being systematically terrorized.
- Related: U.S. operators now attack rescuers, using Hamas’s “double tap” tactic.
- Bill Clinton could run for president in Ireland or France, but probably won’t.
- David Cameron fluffs citizenship test with David Letterman.
- Chinese company makes prefabricated skyscrapers and can build 30 stories in 15 days.
- Amount of fuel used for road transport predicted to double by 2050.
- Tesla to build “Supercharger” stations around the U.S. for electric cars.
- Medium-format portraits of drivers going 70 mph. #photography #tmn
- Errol Morris identifies the first known faked photograph.
- Elite New York City students explain how they rationalize cheating on exams and homework.
- Profile of a folklorist who documents 19th-century New England vampire panics.
- I am here because I like artists who have something to say and have the balls to say it. A history of Madonna’s apologies.
- Insider report from the Manaslu avalanche disaster, with at least eight killed on Sunday.
- Why we can’t open windows inside planes: It would make all the passengers pass out.
- That’s right: TMN’s map quizzes are back (for your diversionary [?] pleasure).
- Now, folks, I gotta do a table touch on 17 and get some more breadsticks to 26, so I’m gonna wrap up here. Joe Biden is your waiter.