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Headlines from October 1, 2012
- Yemen’s president praises the accuracy of U.S. drone strikes.
- The president of the United States is an awesome figure. Mondale’s prep partner remembers the ‘84 debates.
- How to tame your brain’s emotions and make better decisions. #video #watchitlater
- Was it just nostalgia pulling me, or is something of real value lost at 30,000ft? The mind suck of air travel.
- Shteyngart to American: “Like the country whose name graces the hulls of your flying ships, you are exhausted and shorn of purpose.” #opinions
- Related: Hugh Ryan travels by rail to escape the internet. #tmn
- Statistically, if we wear helmets for cycling, maybe we should wear helmets when we climb ladders or get into a bath.
- Guardian editor takes his son to an punk graphics exhibit, where they stumble upon a 35-year-old photo of him.
- HIV has weakened immune systems across Africa, opening the door to a deadly Salmonella epidemic.
- Responding to Justice Dept. pressure, states end segregation of the mentally disabled from the outside world.
- Scientists predict global warming could shrink fish by up to 24%.
- Cambodia wants its 10th-century statue back.
- Andy Hinds speaks out on being caricatured as an example of “the end of men.”
- An oral history of Cheers. #tv
- The league was fighting a bigger fight…the war between capital and talent. #football
- The allowance that Japanese wives give their salarymen husbands is at its lowest since 1979.
- Iranian news agency republishes Onion story about rural whites liking Ahmadinejad over Obama.
- The case against voting for Obama even if you think he’s better than Romney. #opinions
- Political candidates now wage foreign policy; the next step will be sending drone surrogates abroad.
- Battlestar Gallactica credited with properly portraying life on a big ship.
- Australia, with just a third of a percent of Earth’s population, accounts for almost half its micronations.
- To understand the world, one must first understand a place like Mississippi. Ole Miss celebrates 50 years of painfully achieved racial desegregation.
- “Fanta face”—someone using skin-lightening products in Nigeria.
- I’m 33, I live in Lagos, and when I’m not reading books, I write books for a living.
- Senate majority whip takes online course in modern poetry. #audio
- I was the personification of this vehicle. I could not shed that. Joe Isuzu was fired by first-class mail, and other stories of famous pitchmen.
- Lovely examples of Grateful Dead fan art. via
- Stingray photobomb.
- Mass-player video games, with lots of buying and selling, hire economists to consult on markets.
- Gender gap among economists extends to core professional beliefs.
- Only a fool pays taxes that you don’t have to pay. Thoughts of the super-rich on taxes and presidents. #longreads