Headlines from November 20, 2012
- Republicans aren’t ready to forgive Chris Christie for his post-Sandy embrace of Obama.
- Veterans with PTSD seek the help of a South Carolina couple who are finding success with MDMA treatment. #drugs
- Thieves with power saws steal, deface ancient California cliff carvings.
- Amid controversy over bias toward the oil and gas industry, SUNY shuts down tracking institute.
- A wide range of targets is well illuminated. Why there won’t be a “cyber Pearl Harbor.” #opinions
- A fertility doctor is under fire for hatching a plan to split a single batch of embryos among several patients.
- Paul Ford’s adventures in IVF: “I was skeptical but did not say so. At least it was a plan.” #tmn
- A throwback for Thanksgiving nonconformists: Serve eel. #video
- Make a trip today for your secret holiday stash. “How to Cook Thanksgiving Dinner” by Leslie Harpold. #tmn
- New York Times photographer explains how he shot this year’s “steamy turkey.”
- Think about this when you’re carving your Thanksgiving bird: How to eat a triceratops.
- The rotten science of why we’re never getting hoverboards.
- Simpsons producer talks about how the Beatles helped create modern animation.
- Brain scans reveal the prefrontal cortex changes that occur while freestyle rapping.
- With the Twinkie’s future in question, chemistry teachers wonder how they’ll teach the triple point of baked goods.
- As I watched him die, I felt it all as these sharp fragments. Bryan Cranston revisits the Upper West Side.
- A new study shows humans are more likely to die in the late morning, specifically around 11 a.m.
- Propaganda has been a part of every war; in Israel vs. Hamas, Instagram lets amateurs in on the action.
- Egypt, Israel, Hamas close to reaching ceasefire deal.
- Big pictures from a weekend of violent exchanges between Israel and Gaza.
- Anderson Cooper is never too busy for a good burn on Twitter.
- The Obama coalition is in large part a response to fear instead of, or as well as, hope. But that’s OK. #opinions
- Physicists search for wimps underground in Italy.
- The internet is my doctor. Construction worker shares tips on how to survive without health insurance.
- Belgium rents space for its inmates in Dutch jails, patrolled by Dutch corrections guards.
- Protecting U.S. officials overseas hampers their ability to advance the national interest. #opinions
- Pictures of the typography of great American cars. #photography
- Judd Apatow, Leslie Mann, and their daughters on making a movie based on family squabbles.
- Peter Jackson denies animal deaths on Hobbit set, including that of miniature horse named Rainbow.
- New Radiolab episode on inheritence for your holiday travels. #audio
- For crime readers: BBC4’s terrific “Foreign Bodies” podcast—a history of modern Europe through literary detectives. #audio
- Economist blogger bets a bottle of beer that China’s economy will crash.
- In case you’ve noticed your Becks, Budweiser, and Goose Island beer tasting worse, here’s why.
