Headlines from October 22, 2012
- A guide for the rest of the world: How the outcome of the U.S. election will affect your country.
- Is it legal for your boss to threaten to fire you if you don’t vote for Romney? Yes.
- Government does not create jobs. Except that it does, millions of them. #opinions
- Our corporations must be healthy and growing if our economy is to prosper. McGovern: “On Taxing & Redistributing Income.”
- A collection of McGovern’s Times op-eds, 1971-2008.
- Scottish first minister says an independent Scotland won’t continue housing the UK’s nuclear weapons.
- On racial discrimination in entertainment and the Asianification of the Cloud Atlas cast. #movies
- It is rarer than having five U.S. presidents in the same place at the same time. Star Trek captains assemble.
- How an additive to blue jeans could clean the air in cities.
- Green Mountain College to slaughter, serve unofficial campus mascot to students.
- IT’S NOT WHAT I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE IT SUCKS. “The Love Song of J. Alfred Capslock.”
- The Guardian‘s complete guide to NaNoWriMo. #writing
- Skeleton heads are submerged in the landscaping. The Upper East Side has become a Halloween destination. #halloween
- Related: The Halloween home tour in tony LA. #tmn
- Edible insects (and other creatures) and how to prepare them. #food
- “Re-engineering of Tumor-Eating Microbes to Excrete Minimally Acceptable Levels of Ecstasy as Byproduct.”
- We need more impossible in our culture. Go out and capture moonlight on water in a bucket, [Ono] commands. #art
- Consensus of surveys points to a large, perhaps historic gender gap in this year’s election.
- Nate Silver and Sam Wang explain why some political polls aren’t worth tracking (e.g., Gallup). #audio
- See also: Why national polls continue to look so close.
- Praise for Obama’s secret achievements: Doubling of vehicle mileage and Race to the Top.
- Chinese Nobel-winning novelist wants to use his prize money to buy a house in Beijing, but can only afford an apartment.
- After 18 years of full democracy, South Africa is one of the most unequal countries in the world.
- France’s Socialist minister for industrial recovery poses for a pinup with lipstick and blender.
- Photographs of every named place in North Dakota. #photography
- Q&A with Levi’s traveling aesthete, pursuing inspiration for jeans.
- Notes on “urine wheels,” designed to help medical practitioners create sensory profiles of patients’ pee.
- Alan Rickman has an epic tea time. #video
- Rickman completists must see “Song of Lunch,” in which he and Emma Thompson make a movie from a poem.
- Tumblr of favorable famous people spending quality time together.
- Before you skin a fish fillet, open a bottle of beer and save the cap. Eleven things learned from reading the latest issue of Field & Stream.
- Terrific treatise about pleasures and passions from man who has read over 6,000 books.