Headlines from November 2, 2012
- Consider giving to the American Red Cross to help those affected by Hurricane Sandy.
- Before Sandy unleashed its fury…there were people warning of this exact scenario, and they were only sometimes heard.
- Federal budget cuts threaten the hurricane tracking capabilities that helped the East Coast prepare for Sandy.
- Staten Islanders ask Bloomberg to postpone the marathon and send them help instead.
- You’re reminded that New York is, indeed, a city of islands. When Sept. 11 unified Staten Island. #tmn
- The ultimate disaster-proof home: built to withstand earthquakes, fires, terrorism. #video
- Astronomers capture “the total amount of light from all of the stars that have ever shone.” #space
- We are made of stars: animated gif portraits of our human galaxies. #tmn
- Chomsky on neuroscience, AI, and why both are headed in the wrong direction. #q&a
- So you know: Fingerprints last a lifetime and can even grow back.
- Medical advances may march on, but post-surgical pain relief has been the same for the past 60 years.
- Providing additional, irrelevant info—like a picture—may be the best way to present the illusion of truth.
- Elephant learns to imitate Korean speech by inserting its trunk into its mouth. #nature
- This acquiring of of a new mouth is a physical act. Learning a foreign language is like learning a sport.
- Navy archaeologists believe they’ve located the cave from Island of the Blue Dolphins.
- On the campaign trail, the candidates kissed a lot of babies—the babies didn’t always kiss back. #photos
- The definitive guide to post-Halloween candy trading. #video
- New issue of Bloomberg Businessweek gets it—“It’s Global Warming, Stupid” means prepare for weather on steroids.
- Related: The Bloomberg cover if you haven’t seen it yet.
- “Nation Suddenly Realizes This Just Going To Be A Thing That Happens From Now On.”
- U.S. Marines tackle zombie-invasion exercise since characteristics are similar to other catastrophic events.
- Anger rising over fuel shortages around New York; 20,000 people still trapped in their homes in Hoboken.
- Twitter builds map to illustrate people’s reactions to tweets from Romney and Obama.
- Round-up of lighthearted political stories for your weekend reading on Kindle, iPad, iPhone, etc.
- Algorithm called MOGO (Making Order Using Google As an Oracle) processes data to track drug-cartel activity.
- Reporter plays round of golf at Louisiana’s only maximum-security prison.
- Sherlock Holmes fans annually recreate their idol’s fateful encounter at the Reichenbach falls.
- As recently as the early 1970s, San Francisco and Detroit seemed to be on a similar trajectory. Giants-Lions series viewed in economic history.
- Chicago offers gift cards to parents who pick up their students’ report cards and participate in parent-teacher conferences.
- Goldman Sachs scans internal emails to prove it doesn’t call its clients “muppets.”
- “Calling all the basic bitches. There is a new announcement. You’re basic.” Guide to the queer teen stars of YouTube.
- Lunch-break math exercise: A walk through the Hilbert Hotel, or, how to think about infinity.
- Photograph of 84 million stars snapped by a telescope in Chile.
- TMN’s Anthony Doerr dispatched to hike the wet side of Hawaii with his brother. #longreads
- See also: Doerr on the autumn pilgrimage of insects heading underground. #tmn
- When we met General Ojukwu, his soldiers were going into battle with thirty-five rounds of rifle ammunition. Oldie but goodie: Vonnegut visits Biafra. via