Headlines from October 17, 2012
- Coal jobs and cheap coal electricity are important to several of the swing states. Why coal matters this election.
- Korea’s top economic officer: “Gangnam style” is an example of the creativity Korea needs.
- Police raid motorcycle gang’s Brooklyn “clubhouse,” confiscate guns, grenades, and a .50-caliber cannon.
- Research shows routine medical exams don’t result in lower death rates. #health
- The newest, closest Earth-size planet: 4.4 light-years away and with a temperature of 1,200 degrees. #space
- Why the Red Bull Stratos stunt wasn’t actually a jump “from space.”
- Prior to Jon Stewart taking over The Daily Show, Craig Kilborn interviewed him for the show. #video
- I think they’re trying to sound like Michael Caine. Britishisms used by Americans. #anglophila
- Related: “Is He Cute or Is He British?” #tmn
- One effect of Downton Abbey: For a London butler agency, demand has doubled in the past year.
- I always imagined that I was singing to somebody who was similar to how I had been. Q&A with Morrissey.
- Thoreau wasn’t an oddball loner, but rather a restless social butterfly.
- Recommended listening: Beck’s “NYC 73-78” from REWORK_Philip Glass Remixed. #music
- A walk around Manchester’s Haçienda club in 1982. #video
- Obama wins debate by seven points and triumphs in the likability race, but Romney tops on economic issues.
- Fact-checking the debate’s disputed claims and arguments.
- Lovely chart shows the idiocy of blanket statements about presidential elections.
- Binders Full of Women, the tumblr.
- Movie trailer and story of the country chef who became Mitterand’s cook. #video
- Only 43 women have been awarded a Nobel Prize, out of 862 people and organizations who have been named laureates.
- Cosmetics boss says if a product is hot in Korea, it will be a global success.
- Graph shows where millionaires live—52% in America and Japan, only 2% in Switzerland.
- Nearly 25 percent of Americans don’t know that the U.S. declared its independence from Great Britain.
- Beautiful pictures of the Faroe Islands, halfway between Norway and Iceland.
- Frank Sinatra’s “My Way” is Britain’s favorite funeral song, “despite being a ditty of ineffable banality.”
- American funeral parlors rely on a single man for their “semi-spiritual” ambient music. #tmn
- Art created from NASA’s data sets. #photography
- Howler now available for American soccer and/or magazine nuts.
- Every hour of television watched after the age of 25 reduces the viewer’s life expectancy by 21.8 minutes.
- Will Self didn’t win the Booker Prize (Hilary Mantel won again), but he sure knows how to take a photo.
- Story of why a big-money prize to build a human-powered helicopter has gone unclaimed for more than 30 years.