Headlines from November 13, 2012
- U.S. to overtake Saudi Arabia as the world’s leading oil producer by about 2017.
- If you grew up in Britain, the BBC is part of your cultural identity. Overview of what’s happening at the BBC.
- Newspaper reactions from 1909 when the English Channel was crossed in an aircraft for the very first time.
- Berlusconi’s latest showgirl gunning for high office compared to Eva “Evita” Perón.
- U.S. to say in several weeks how many troops will stay in Afghanistan after the drawdown of most combat forces at the end of 2014.
- Giving good directions is similar to teaching—hard as hell.
- Online education is better than traditional teaching in a similar way to why movies trump plays. #opinions
- New theory may explain physics’ notorious cold fusion experiment with existing science.
- How a thermal illusion gave mint the monopoly on breath fresheners.
- Paintings of magnified paint. #art #tmn
- Like! No nuclear. Salted Koji. Top 50 Japanese buzzwords of 2012.
- See also: Blog devoted to critiquing Japanese snack foods.
- In case you missed it, Sam Anderson’s ode to the Oklahoma City Thunder’s likeability. #longreads
- New YouTube series for informative time-killing: “Inventors.” #video
- Museum opened in Lagos to remember Fela Kuti’s years of resistance.
- If you’re a bit smart and a lot determined, you can make the changes you want happen. Dad hacks daughter’s Zelda to reverse player gender.
- Only small children have accepted this new life in the Rockaways. Two weeks after Sandy, pockets of misery.
- For those displaced by war, refugee camps are a recurring way of life—and worry for the young is constant.
- What could save us from the fiscal cliff: Mitt Romney’s plan to limit overall tax deductions.
- It was nonstop. It was as much as you could possibly produce. Q&A with Al Rotches, creator of banner ads for both Obama campaigns.
- Where two key components of Obamacare—insurance exchanges and Medicaid expansion—now stand in the U.S. #maps
- On the Petraeus affair, a look at whether the New York Times‘s Ethicist was unethical.
- Memorial Sloan-Kettering doctors drive down the price of a costly cancer drug by refusing to approve its use for patients. #health
- One hundred years later, the last of the artifacts taken from Machu Picchu by the U.S have been returned.
- A dispatch from the Twilight Tent City awaiting the final movie’s premiere. #photos
- If you don’t know how to boil water, this is what you gotta eat. David Chang demonstrates his favorite after-school snack: raw ramen with dry flavor powder. #video
- Anthony Bourdain didn’t start the un-foodie movement, but he’s become its voice. #food
- Officials scour public hunting grounds for illegal deer blinds, which are becoming ever more elaborate. #hunting
- How we saved the post office. #art